By contrast, the divisions around Rome and Milan cover areas much larger than those cities, meaning that the ratio of GDP to population is not nearly as inflated.

ECONOMIST: Letters

In 1957, he made his debut at the famed La Scala opera house in Milan, where much later in 1993 he became the first non-Italian to be awarded the Golden Baton.

BBC: Conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch dies at 89

He's a very intelligent guy, who found the influence from above a little too much at Milan.

CNN: Coach Benitez sacked by Inter Milan

After a successful first season on the catwalks of Paris, London and Milan, she is now much in demand in New York too.

CNN: Once Again, With Attitude

Business travellers pay nearly twice as much to fly to San Francisco from London as from Milan.

ECONOMIST: Open the skies

Fog is much more prevalent in Italy, where the major metros of Milan and Rome get socked in 300 days a year thanks to pollution that coagulates with air moisture from flooded rice fields.

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