Barcelona Vs Milan (the cities not the squads)

[GiCa]

Barcelona is way more beautiful, better organized, with better weather and lifestyle than Milan.

My honest opinion Milan is not particularly beautiful, much on the contrary it's a rather grey industrial city with a few gems like the Duomo.

This is true. Overall Milan is really grey; with an heavy athmosfere

Barcelonal feels more colorfull and sprintly-brious

[GiCa]

Thought they have built new skyscraper in Milan wich feels more new and coamopokutan. Thought is not colorfull or brious

The atmosphere of the people too. And everyone as they go there become a but like them. Those who were born there for sure

[Ouistreham]

I know both cities very well. And I have to say : Barcelona is much more exciting!

The town centre of Milan is quite majestic (Duomo, Theatro Alla Scala, la Galleria), but other than that the city is pretty boring. And modern buildings are all flat out ugly.
Furthermore, there is no water in Milan, except for a miserable suburbian canal.

If Milan was moved to the seashore and merged with Trieste or Genoa, well, it would equate Barcelona.

[MinervaItalica]

Milan, no doubts. Barcellona is overrated. I have friends who visited Barcellona with school trip and they said it's nothing special.

[JMack]

Barcelona is way more beautiful than Milan.

[Desperado]

i'm not even going to answer

[MinervaItalica]

Milan is great but personally i prefer Turin among the big cities in the north. I love its Alpine vibe.

[Ouistreham]

Milan, no doubts. Barcellona is overrated. I have friends who visited Barcellona with school trip and they said it's nothing special.

Barcelona is a very (whatever the Catalans say) Spanish town, i.e. it's made of districts all quite different from each other, each one with its own style and speciality. This is somewhat bewildering when you start exploring the city but much more exciting compared to the trivial triteness of Milan.

All Italian major cities are obnoxious failures — Milan Rome, Naples...
On the other hand Italy has more to offer than any other country in the middle sized cities department, I won't deny it — Bologna, Florence, Perugia, Venice, Parma, Modena, Gubbio, Siena, Ferrara and so many others.

personally i prefer Turin among the big cities in the north.

Me too, I don't know why exactly. Maybe because when you come from France it's all of a sudden an Italian culture shock. And because when you're driving back home it feels like motherland isn't far away.
Anyway there is something special, something very dignified in Turin. I love Turin, despite of the ugly Antonelli tower.

[GiCa]

Barcelona seems more social relation dynamical and brious; typical for a Portual city in med coast.

Milan instead has a rigour typical of the upper Po plain a Piedmontese-Lombard rigour.. Veneto is indeed more social and different; a non social nihilist rigour. People are polite and don't care about you nor they smile at you wanting to know you without the neceasary needing. People go out only Saturday. The rest of the day they staiy in home afraid even to telephone to other houses after 8,30 pm.
It s the general feeling

[GiCa]

Barcelona is a very (whatever the Catalans say) Spanish town, i.e. it's made of districts all quite different from each other, each one with its own style and speciality. This is somewhat bewildering when you start exploring the city but much more exciting compared to the trivial triteness of Milan.

All Italian major cities are obnoxious failures — Milan Rome, Naples...
On the other hand Italy has more to offer than any other country in the middle sized cities department, I won't deny it — Bologna, Florence, Perugia, Venice, Parma, Modena, Gubbio, Siena, Ferrara and so many others.


Me too, I don't know why exactly. Maybe because when you come from France it's all of a sudden an Italian culture shock. And because when you're driving back home it feels like motherland isn't far away.
Anyway there is something special, something very dignified in Turin. I love Turin, despite of the ugly Antonelli tower.

Piedmontese people are some kind of French.
That a what I think

I don't know how to say it in inglese I once only the Italian word. If you have a "Pignolo" rigour and bit of "Cortese" behaviour to please the other it s Piemontese.
If French from est France are like that than they are similar to piedmonteses