The first Sunday of every month, in Milan city center,  cars can not run in the

   Learn more about Leonardo da Vinci's 
                works and machines 

Naviglio Grande

The oldest canal takes it’s water from the Ticino river. Tha canal was constructed from 1177 to 1257 and is about 50 km long. In the past it was used as transporting way of goods, particularly for the blocks of marble that were used for building the Cathedral.

Typical, old Milan houses, old wash-houses with wooden beamed roofs and craftsmen’s workshops remember on passed times. Today you find boutiques and ateliers of artist of Milan, cafes, restaurants and old moored barges fitted out as bars for meeting the typical atmosphere and the young Milan people.

The Pavia Canal (Naviglio Pavese)

It was built at the beginning of the 14th century and starts from the Darsena (habour) and flows into the Ticino river after 33 km which joins after a while Po river that flows into the Adria see.

Darsena

The Darsena was built in 1603 and it’s basin is the only remaining evidence of the vast system of canals and waterways in Milan. The Grand Canal flow into the Darsena and the Pavia Canal and the Ticinello flow out.

Here, every Saturday the colourful flea market take place where second-hand goods and antiques may be found.

Naviglio della Martesana

Is supplied by the Adda river that gots it’s water from the Lake Lecco. Along the towns Inzago, Gorgonzola and Cernusco sul Naviglio a bikeway ports into the heat of Milan, where the canal disappears under the ground