Vico Milano

Style

Cool, calm and curated

Setting

Storied centro storico

From da Vinci’s Last Supper to Armani’s first boutique, Milan specialises in inspiring creative masterstrokes; we might just be tempted to add Vico Milano to the list. Tucked between the centro storico and the hip Navigli district, this seven-suite guesthouse has been painstakingly conceived by design-hooked hotelier Neri Baccheschi Berti. Each room is a design geek’s grotto: Moroccan tiles in boiled-sweet hues here, a mirrored wall there, and a minimalist mezzanine floor featuring a bespoke four-poster bed. In the lobby, mid-century armchairs, hard-won at a Milanese auction, lure guests down for Negroni-fuelled evenings at the bar. Throw in impeccable service and lashings of the Baccheschi Berti family’s award-winning wine, and you’ve got a date with a pied-à-terre worth dressing up for.

Facilities

Rooms

Six.

Checkout

Between 8am and noon. Check-in, from 3pm to 7pm. If you plan to arrive later, please contact the hotel in advance.

More Details

Rates include breakfast buffet of pastries, yoghurt, granola, fresh-pressed juices and more.

Also

The split-level rooms mean this stay isn’t suitable for wheelchair users.

Fitness Center

Free Internet Access

On-Site Restaurant

At the Hotel

Library, living area, free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV, Nespresso coffee machine, tea and coffee selection, minibar, Aesop bath products and free bottled water.

Our Favourite Rooms

From teak floors from Myanmar to jewel-toned tiles from Fez, each of the rooms feature a mini museum’s worth of globe-trotting treasures. If you’re planning a Pretty Woman-style outfit-changing montage with the bounty from your boutique-shopping spree, go for the Deluxe Suite – it has a separate living room and dressing area.

Packing Tips

Leave suitcase space for a bottle (or five) of the Baccheschi Berti family’s award-winning organic wine.

Also

Watch this wall space: with exclusive exhibitions with local galleries in the works, the hotel’s hefty art collection is set to get even more impressive.

Children

There’s not much for little Smiths at this grown-up guesthouse, but children of all ages are welcome. A baby cot can be added to rooms on request.

Gallery

Food & Drink

Top Table

If you’re not propped up, aperitivo in hand, at the bar, there’s a bespoke wingback armchair with your name on it.

Dress Code

Slip on some artfully avant-garde vintage threads and you’ll be practically part of the furniture.

Hotel Restaurant

A breakfast of fresh pastries, Italian cold cuts and more is served in the lobby each morning. Come evening, Italian dishes emerging from an open-kitchen and a low-lit romantic ambience defines the Speakeasy – the hotel's hidden restaurant.

Hotel Bar

Set against a sultry marble backdrop, the hotel’s sleek bar adds a dash of art-deco allure to the hotel’s lobby and living area. Here, the organic wines from the Castello di Vicarello estate are the main event. Once you’ve sampled them all, there’s a long list of vintages from Veneto, Lombardy and Trentino to try. The bar also serves up a range of classic cocktails and champagne, along with plates of Tuscan salumi and cheeses to stave off the late-night nibbles. Tipple procured, sink into a plush velvet sofa, take your pick of imposing armchairs or kick back in the curated library – at a table designed by Neri himself.

Last Orders

Breakfast is served from 7.30am to 10am, and the bar serves drinks and dainty plates from 6pm to midnight, Tuesday to Saturday.

Planes

Milan Malpensa Airport is under an hour’s drive away. From Milan Linate Airport it takes 30 minutes to De Amicis station on the Line Four metro — then, it's a five-minute walk to the hotel. The hotel can arrange taxi or limousine transfers.

Trains

The Malpensa express train, which connects the airport with the city centre, stops at Milano Cadorna railway station, a short drive from the hotel. The service also stops at Milano Centrale station, as do high speed services from Italian cities including Rome and Venice, plus cross-border trains from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The hotel can arrange transfers from either station for around €15 each way. Once you’re there, Milan’s zippy metro makes getting around a breeze. Sant’Agostino is the hotel’s nearest stop – it’s on the M2 line, which runs straight to Cadorna and Milano Centrale stations.

Automobiles

The centro storico is eminently strollable and the metro makes light work of longer journeys. If you can, go sans car and save yourself the bother of congestion zones and scarce parking spots.

Worth Getting Out of Bed For

Who could fail to be lured from their bed by the scent of espresso and fresh-baked pastries? Follow your nose to the lobby and a lazy morning of itinerary-plotting awaits, fuelled by a full Continental spread.

That said, you’ll want to set off sharpish if you’re destined for the Duomo – queues to see inside the Gothic masterpiece grow by the hour. Mingle with the Old Masters at Castello Sforzesco, a sprawling Renaissance citadel now home to an art museum with an allstar collection: Michelangelo, da Vinci, Titian and Tintoretto are just a handful of the headline acts. Parco Sempione, with its collection of sculptures by Arman, Francesco Barzaghi and more, is right next door.

Shopping in Milan needs little introduction. Designer flagships dominate under the glass dome of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, and the chic neoclassical shopfronts of the Quadrilatero della Moda make up one of the world’s foremost shopping districts. If your style skews a little more off-beat, though, Via Giangiacomo Mora may be more your thing. Tucked between two basilicas, the street is home to a bevy of vintage boutiques brimming with high-end finds and curated retro collections.

With the Navigli district in strolling distance from the hotel, after-dark FOMO is a thing of the past. By day, you can cruise the last surviving canals in a city that once had waterways to rival Venice. Come evening, this is where the Milanese cool crowd congregate; if you feel like joining them, wander down and watch the waterfront world from your pick of stylish aperitivo spots.

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