Hotel VIU Milan

Location Summary
Located in the Porta Volta area, a new state-of-the-art district, Hotel VIU Milan is a few steps away from Corso Como, Gae Aulenti Square, and Brera district. Porta Volta is emerging as one of Milan's most pulse-quickening districts thanks to an influx of hip bars and restaurants, and stylish new neighbors such as the Feltrinelli Porta Volta building by Herzog & de Meuron, the firm's first public structure in Italy. The redefinition of the area of Porta Volta is an intrinsically Milanese project, taking up themes of local urbanism and architecture, and creating new emblems for this stylish city such as the "square of the future" Piazza Gae Aulenti. Take the Feltrinelli Porta Volta project, which will not only give the city a sizeable green lung (11,000 square meters to be precise) but also cafés, restaurants, and shops, as well as a library of historical archives. Strikingly juxtaposed against the modern face of the neighborhood is the historical landmark of Cimitero Monumentale—62 acres of mausoleums tracing centuries of architectural influence, from Egyptian, neo-Roman, Byzantine to Art Nouveau and even postmodern. As befitting its setting in Italy's fashion capital, Hotel VIU Milan is on the doorstep of world-class shopping courtesy of neighboring Corso Como. Here, the grand dames of fashion rub shoulders with achingly-cool concept stores such as 10 Corso Como, owned by former fashion editor and tastemaker Carla Sozzani.

Directions to Hotel
By car from Linate: Take Aeroporto di Milano Linate to Viale Enrico Forlanini/SP14 in Novegro-Tregarezzo 3 min (550 m). Follow Viale Enrico Forlanini to Via Cardinale Mezzofanti in Milano 4 min (3.0 km). Continue on Via Cardinale Mezzofanti to Viale Argonne 2 min (800 m). Continue on Viale Argonne. Take Viale Regina Giovanna, Viale Tunisia, Viale della Liberazione, Viale Luigi Sturzo and Piazzale Cimitero Monumentale to Via Aristotile Fioravanti.

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