Travel To Milan

The population of the urban area (Greater Milan, La Grande Milano), comprising the core of Lombardy, is estimated as of 2006 to be 5,221,228 people[citation needed]. Finally, the official population of the Milan Metropolitan area counts over 7,000,000 residents, the largest in Italy, reaching Como, Lecco, and Varese.The municipal border wraps a relatively small area (about one-eighth that of Rome) because of the historical development of high density centres in agriculturally rich Lombardy. The urban agglomoration centred around Milan, however, extends well beyond and includes some Swiss territories in southern Canton Ticino: this does not imply any kind of administrative unity, however.The city is one of the world's major commercial and financial centres, and is among the most affluent cities in the European Union[citation needed].Milan is also renown as one of the world capitals of design and fashion. Indeed the English word milliner is derived from the name of the city. The Lombard metropolis is famous for its fashion houses and shops (such as along via Montenapoleone) and the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in the Piazza Duomo (reputed to be the world's oldest shopping mall).The city hosted the World Exposition in 1906 and has submitted a bid to BIE to host the Universal Expo in 2015.