Milan’s current glow-up is wonderfully ground-level: #2 Walkability meets #4 Biking as the city rolls out its “Città 30” slow-street program and designs a region-wide cycling superhighway network (Cambio) to bind suburbs to the core. The fully opened, 9.3-mile M4 metro now links Linate Airport to San Babila in about 12 minutes and runs end-to-end to San Cristoforo: game-changing for airport-to- Duomo transfers and daily commutes. That helps validate Milan’s #6 Airport strength.
The #7-ranked Allianz MiCo – Europe’s largest convention venue – keeps the calendar packed, while the 14,000-seat Santa Giulia Arena targets late-2025 delivery ahead of Milano- Cortina 2026. Culture keeps compounding: Brera’s Grande Brera project opened Palazzo Citterio in December 2024, stitching 19th and 20th-century masters into a reborn circuit. And a different kind of wellness arrived with April’s debut of the vast De Montel thermal park, an all-season urban spa that underpins Milan’s improving #25 Health showing. Real estate momentum is tangible. The Olympic Village at Porta Romana hit major 2025 milestones; after the Games it becomes Italy’s largest publicly supported student-housing complex (about 1,700 beds) fortifying a diversified, #31 Prosperity economy. Meanwhile, the MIND innovation district keeps clustering life-science tenants.