Where you are
You are at Via Daniele Ricciarelli 13. Across the street, at number 11, a Penny Market. Below the entrance, a sign reading El Norteño. The neighborhood is called residential San Siro and covers Milan's western strip between Buonarroti, De Angeli, Lotto and Wagner stops.
Three different landscapes coexist within a 15-minute walk.
Three landscapes in 15 minutes
The street: post-war
Via Ricciarelli is post-war. Public housing built in rationalist style between 1948 and 1958. On Saturday mornings, four minutes away, the Via Osoppo market: stalls open Thursday and Saturday.
Wagner: liberty
Walk fifteen minutes south-east. You're at Piazza Wagner. Above the square, the historic covered market: 1930, rationalist style. The buildings around are bourgeois liberty.
CityLife: contemporary
Walk two more minutes into Parco Tre Torri. Three skyscrapers (Isozaki, Hadid, Libeskind) emerge from the green.
Worth seeing within 20 minutes
Leonardo's Horse
Eighteen minutes on foot, in Piazzale dello Sport, free entry: the largest equestrian bronze statue in the world. Leonardo drew it in 1482 for Ludovico il Moro. Cast in 1999 in New York, gifted to Milan that same year.
De Montel Thermal Baths
Twenty-two minutes walking. A spa just opened inside the former liberty stables of Carlo De Montel, an 1899 building. Reopened as baths in 2024.
Meazza Stadium
Twenty minutes on foot, or five by tram.
Monte Stella
Twenty-eight minutes on foot, or ten by tram. An artificial hill, fifty meters tall, built from WWII rubble. From the top on a clear day you see the Alps.
Transport
On foot: T16 San Siro Stadio 5 min · M5 Segesta 11 min · M1 Gambara 11 min · M1+M5 Lotto 14 min · M1 De Angeli 15 min · M1 Buonarroti 20 min.
By car: Auxologico San Luca hospital 5 min · Carabinieri command 5 min.
To the historic center (Duomo, Brera, Castello): 25-30 minutes door to door combining walking and metro. This is not a central area, and it doesn't pretend to be.
Who it's for
Whoever wants a curated apartment in a neighborhood with services on foot and a better price than the center. Whoever works remotely. Whoever appreciates corners tourists don't see.
Who it's not for
Whoever wants postcard-Milan (Brera, Duomo, Navigli are 25-30 minutes away). Whoever needs the metro at the door (closest stop is 11 minutes on foot).
Casa Ricciarelli, in this context
Casa Ricciarelli is curated, warm, complete. It opens onto the sidewalk of an ordinary Milan neighborhood. The neighborhood welcomes those who stay, discreetly.