Known for its luxe reputation and famed for its fashion escapades Milan has lived with this hard-metropolitan industrial façade for way too long. With its modern high-rise and historical architecture with culture behind every corner done in true Italian style, it’s time to see Milan for all it has to offer, and Christmas is the perfect time to start exploring.

Milan not only has a hyper-local food culture dosed rich in history (and wine) but is also birth place to the Christmas tradition panettone. Derived from the Italian word “panetto” meaning a small loaf cake, legend has it that the delicacy we love and enjoy today was created as an act of love from a poor baker boy to the Duke of Milan’s daughter, and now has pride place in every bakery and store across the city and internationally digested and enjoyed – now that’s a love story we can get behind.