Piazza san babila Archives

Milan invaded by bees: six hours to free a Vespa

10 April, 2020

In a hilarious play on words, Milan was yesterday invaded by bees, with a bunch of them settling on a Vespa scooter in Piazza San Babila. The word for bee in Italian - “ape” - is also used for the…

Milan removes public phones: bring your mobile to Expo 2015

6 April, 2020

For the 2015 Expo in Milan, make sure you take your mobile phone with you. The city will be ridding itself of nearly all its public telephone booths, in an act which will change the city scape. While we’ll probably…