The Zone 1 of Milan is one of the 9 administrative zones of Milan, Italy. The zone includes the historical center of the city. It is the least populated of the city's zones and one of the smallest by area, a significant part of which is occupied by the Piazza del Duomo, the Castello Sforzesco and Sempione Park or Viale Beatrice d'Este. Much of the remainder of the zone is dedicated to museums and administration buildings.
Viale Beatrice d'Este, tree-lined historic large boulevard avenue that surrounds the city of Milan that also includes viale Luigi Majno, viale Regina Margherita, viale Bianca Maria, bastioni di Porta Venezia, with renowned monuments such as Walls of Milan or design palaces of the 1950s;
Porta Sempione, a prominent historic district that also includes part of Corso Sempione, a large avenue leading to Porta Sempione from the northwest. The main landmark of this area is the Sforza Castle, which dominates the Simplon Park, the largest and most important city park in the centre of Milan. The park houses other renowned monuments and places of interest, such as the Branca Tower, the Palazzo dell'Arte, sculptures by Giorgio de Chirico, and the public aquarium. The whole area is one of the centres of the so-called Milanese movida, with a number of bars, pubs, restaurants, and discos; since the RAI public television company, as well as some major radio stations, have their headquarters in the area, frequent appearances of celebrities contribute to the popularity of the Sempione's night life venues;
Porta Tenaglia;
Centro Storico;
Porta Ticinese
Conca del Naviglio;
Guastalla.
Education
Thanks to its central position, the Zona 1 houses some prominent educational institutions. In this area there are the main buildings of two universities:
University of Milan, founded in 1924, is located not so far from the Piazza del Duomo. At the end of the Second World War, the old Ospedale dei Poveri building, known as "la Cà Granda", was assigned to the University. The building, one of the first Italian examples of civil architecture - commissioned in the 15th century by the Sforza family, the dukes of Milan - was seriously damaged by the bombings of 1943. In 1958, after a complex series of reconstruction and renovation works, it became home to the University Rector's Office, the administrative offices and the schools of Law and Humanities.
Cadorna, Cairoli, Cordusio, Duomo, Palestro, Porta Venezia, San Babila;
Cadorna, Lanza, Moscova, Sant’Ambrogio;
Crocetta, Duomo, Missori, Montenapoleone, Porta Romana, Turati.
The Zona 1 is also interested by Milan Area C, a congestion charge introduced on January 16, 2012, replacing the previous pollution charge Ecopass and based on the same designated traffic restricted zone or ZTL, corresponding to the central Cerchia dei Bastioni area. The ZTL encompasses about and 77,000 residents. The area is accessible through 43 gates, monitored by video cameras. Area C started as an 18-month pilot program based on the partial implementation of the results of a referendum that took place on June 2011. The objective of the program was to drastically reduce the chronic traffic jams that take place in the city of Milan, to promote sustainable mobility and public transport, and to decrease the existing levels of smog that have become unsustainable from the point of view of public health. Area C was definitively approved as a permanent program on 27 March 2013.
