At the Milan Cathedral, in the city of Milan. Italy

 Milan is Italy's city of the future, a fast-paced metropolis where money talks, creativity is big business, and looking good is an art form.

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(in a leading alpha global city, with strengths in the fields of art, chemicals, commerce, design, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media communication, services, research, and tourism). Milan is at the heart of Italy's fashion, design, and architecture scenes, so much so, that creatives from all over the world come every year for events like Salone del Mobile (the Milan Furniture Fair) and Milan Fashion Week. And the scenery and sights live up to the hype. There is the iconic Duomo di Milano, the world's largest Gothic Cathedral; the amazing mosaics and glass vaults of the Scala Opera House and Galleria Vit, plustorio Emanuele II, plus museums and galleries like Pinacoteca di Brera. As an added bonus, Milan's food scene has grown over the last decade. Now, visitors can not only find regional classics, but can also explore a variety of solid international flavors, including Chinese, Middle Eastern, and Ethiopian fare.

+ The city of Milan, capital of Milano province and of the region of Lombardy in northern Italy, is the leading financial center and the most prosperous manufacturing and commercial city in Italy. It is the most industrious and vital city to have achieved prominence since the ancient land of Italy became aware of itself as a modern nation-state.

+ During the Risorgimento, the 19th-century movement for Italian unification, Rome became the heart of a future anticipated in the collective fantasies of Italians. Yet, though Rome remains the political capital of Italy, Milan has long been known as its “moral capital.” When the Milanese assert that their city is the moral capital, they not only express the ancient regionalism typical of all Italy and known as campanilismo (a reference to the church bell of each city), but they also refer to the city’s quality and values, historical as well as contemporary.

+ It was partly out of an opposition to the nature of Rome as a capital of government, and thereby the perceived capital of taxation, state spending, and political skullduggery, that Milan’s self-image as Italy’s moral capital was born. This notion was cemented in the late 19th century as an industrializing Milan set itself up as a capital of innovation, production, and efficiency—values the Milanese considered absent in Rome. The city’s sense of moral superiority—particularly the idea that the Milanese people were morally superior because of their positive work ethic—was reinforced as Milan ultimately became Italy’s center of industry and finance, as well as the motor behind the country’s extraordinary economic development in the 20th century. (Today Milan is the richest city in Italy and one of the richest in Europe.)