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Milan (Milano in the Italian language, and Milán in Milanese dialect, from Latin, Mediolanum with the meaning of 'in the middle of the plain') is the main city in northern Italy, and is located in the plains of Lombardy, the most developed Italian regions. It has about 1.3 million inhabitants, but the urban area totals about 4.5 million and the Metropolitan Area about 7.5 million.

It is the capital of the region and is the economic capital of Italy. It has for many centuries been recorded as Mailand, which is still the German name of the city today.

Its province lies in the western part of Lombardy; it covers an area of 1,982 sq. km and has a population of 3,707,210 (2001 census); in 1991 the population was 3,738,685. The province comprises 188 communes, ranging in population (2001) from (obviously) Milan (1,256,211) to Nosate (638); the commune of Milan has lost 113,084 inhabitants (8,3%), from 1991 to 2001.

The town is famous for fashion firms and shops (via Montenapoleone) and the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele on the Piazza del Duomo, reputed to be the world's oldest shopping mall. Another famed product of the city is the traditional sweet cake called panettone.

Offical Internet site of the city of Milan www.milanoinfotourist.it/home.htm (english) and www.turismo.comune.milano.it (english)

Hotels

Goethe-Institute Milan

Centro Culturale Tedesco

Via San Paolo 10

I-20121 Milan

Tel. +39 02 76005571

Fax +39 02 76009186

www.goethe.de/it/mai

Camera di Commercio Italo-Germanica

Via Napo Torriani, 29

20124 Milan

Tel. +39 02-679.131

Fax +39 02-669.809.64

Email: info@ahk-italien.it

www.ahk-italien.it/

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