Milan’s current glow-up is wonderfully ground-level: #5 Walkability meets #9 Biking as the city rolls out its “Città 30” 30-km/hour speed programme and designs the region-wide Biciplan Cambio 750-kilometre network of cycle paths connecting suburbs to the core. The 15-kilometre M4 metro now links Linate Airport to the city centre in 12 minutes and can carry 24,000 people hourly end-to-end to San Cristoforo: game-changing for both visitors and residents. Milan’s #4 Airport ranking will only rise, and the connectivity boosts #3-ranked Allianz MiCo, one of Europe’s largest meeting venues. Schedules were tight for completion of the 16,000-seat Santa Giulia Arena, a key venue of Milano-Cortina 2026, the Winter Olympic Games, but the Olympic Village at Porta Romana is ready to become Italy’s largest publicly supported student housing complex (with 1,700 beds) after the Games. Old and new Milan meet at the new De Montel urban spa park, which offers cutting-edge treatments and thermal waters that have soothed since Roman times – all in an historic Art Nouveau venue. Meanwhile, the MIND innovation district keeps clustering life-sciences tenants, supporting the #14-ranking for Business Ecosystem and #9 for Large Companies.