The starting point

Where the area lies,
and what bounds it

From the satellite

The whole area, in one frame

From Monte Stella in the east to the western parks, from the racecourses in the north to Baggio in the south. The red dot is the crossroads. All maps.

The point

The exact point, and how it is written

Diagram

From the City to the crossroads, in four levels

How you go from the city to the junction, with the names and subdivisions the City uses.

Names that look alike

«San Siro» does not mean one thing only

The same name means different things: the neighbourhood as people call it, the town-planning unit, the number in the City list. Each has its source.

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The four directions

What you find, going away from the crossroads

The distances are those already kept in the stories. It is not a radius to be joined: each point has a direction, and a name.

Photographs

The four directions, as they were

A period photograph for each direction in the list above. Each image leads to its record.

1. North · Via San Giusto towards Axum and the stadium

   Via San Giusto at street level, before the tunnel

   Author unidentified · Local Facebook groups of the area and of Milanese memory · Low resolution, free of charge, for documentation · art. 70 para. 1-bis Italian law 633/1941

2. South · Via San Giusto towards the hospital and Baggio

   San Carlo hospital building site, early 1960s

   Author unidentified · Local Facebook groups of the area and of Milanese memory · Low resolution, free of charge, for documentation · art. 70 para. 1-bis Italian law 633/1941

3. East · Towards Selinunte and the city

   Via Paravia, about 1947

   Author unidentified · Local Facebook groups of the area and of Milanese memory · Low resolution, free of charge, for documentation · art. 70 para. 1-bis Italian law 633/1941

4. West · Towards Quarto Cagnino, Trenno and Quinto

   Via Fratelli Zoia, 1956–58

   Author unidentified · Local Facebook groups of the area and of Milanese memory · Low resolution, free of charge, for documentation · art. 70 para. 1-bis Italian law 633/1941

Two municipi

Municipio 8, north and east of the stadium

The crossroads and the stadium are in Municipio 7. Just to the north and east Municipio 8 begins. The neighbourhoods the San Siro area touches by history and by road belong to it:

• QT8Piero Bottoni’s Quartiere Triennale 8, at the foot of Monte Stella.
• Gallaratese · San Leonardo · LampugnanoBeyond Monte Stella. At Lampugnano the M1 and the bus station.
• TrennoThe historic core and the large park, north-west of the crossroads.
• Lotto · FieraThe old Fiera Campionaria and piazzale Lotto, where the M1 and M5 meet.
• Tre Torri · PortelloCityLife on the old Fiera site, and Portello to the north.

Sources: Italian Wikipedia and Bookcity Milano, list of the neighbourhoods of Municipio 8. The places one by one in Places and traditions and in green space.

The offices of Municipio 8

Those who live north of the stadium, in QT8, Lampugnano or Trenno, come under Municipio 8. The municipio covers 23.72 km² and runs from the centre to the north-west. The main service desks are gathered in a single building, in Gallaratese.

• Council seatVia Quarenghi 21, 20151 Milan. Next to it is the Bonola stop of the M1.
• Registry officeTwo offices: via Quarenghi 21 and piazzale Accursio 5, near Portello. Identity cards and certificates, by appointment.
• Local policeLocal command at via Quarenghi 21; a second post at piazzale Accursio 5.
• Social servicesThree local offices: via Quarenghi 21, via Aldini 72 and via Consolini 24.
• City librariesGallaratese, via Quarenghi 21, in the same building as the Municipio, open since 1986; Accursio, piazzale Accursio 5. Free lending and reading rooms.
• Community centresAmong others, Lampugnano, the nearest to the stadium, and Aldini, Appennini, Cenisio, Jacopino, Lessona, Pecetta, Satta.

Sources: Comune di Milano, Municipio 8 · Offices; Wikipedia, Municipio 8 di Milano; Comune di Milano, registry office of via Quarenghi; Pagine Gialle, Local police command 8; Sistema Bibliotecario di Milano and ICCU, Anagrafe delle biblioteche. Hours and services change: check them on the City portal.

Municipio 8 in the City’s lists

What is needed every day, counted on the official lists. Each entry opens its list.

• 2.690neighbourhood shops
• 900bars, restaurants and pizzerias
• 60sports facilities
• 54newsstands
• 51pharmacies
• 40bakers
• 25historic shops
• 8weekly markets
• 4covered municipal markets
• 4city libraries

Rounded counts, October 2026: premises with a street number in Municipio 8 according to the City’s address register (DS634). Source: Comune di Milano, Open Data.

Sports facilities of Municipio 8, north of the stadium

Beyond the stadium and the racecourses, the «city of sport» continues in Municipio 8. Straight-line distances from the crossroads.

• Lido di MilanoQT8 · piazzale Lotto 15 · open-air pools and mini golf, opened in 19301.9 km
• Lampugnano swimming poolLampugnano · via Lampugnano 76 · Italian Swimming Federation pool2.0 km
• Allianz Cloud (former Palalido)QT8 · piazza Stuparich 1 · basketball and volleyball arena2.2 km
• XXV Aprile sports centreQT8 · via Cimabue 24 · athletics track and badminton2.4 km
• Vigorelli velodromePortello · via Arona 19 · the cycling track, today also an American football field3.2 km

Sources: Comune di Milano, Open Data · sports facilities; Italian Wikipedia, entries Lido di Milano, Allianz Cloud and Vigorelli velodrome; Milanosport.

Water

The Olona, the Vepra, and the name of the area

A tributary, or an old name of the river. The 1917 flood names this crossroads.

1. The river

   Vepra

   Ancient name of the Olona, or its tributary: the sources give both readings.

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3. The church · 9th century

   San Siro alla Vepra

   Via Masaccio 20, north-east of the crossroads.

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5. The village, then the area

   San Siro

   The village takes its name from the church, and passes it on to the area.

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7. Last, not first · 1926

   The stadium

   It takes its name from the area, it does not give it. Eleven centuries after the watercourse.

The chain reads from the left: a watercourse, a church, a village, an area. The stadium is the last link, not the first, which is why this site starts from the crossroads and not from the stadium.

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Quinto Romano

One name, four perimeters that do not coincide

Cadastral municipality, NIL 62, the village of piazza Gisola, via Quinto Romano. Four things bearing the same name that do not coincide. You leave via Novara towards the Caldera: 2.3 km west.

Overlap diagram, not to scale: it shows which perimeters contain which, not their real shape. The street is elsewhere, in Baggio, and touches none of the three.

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Torrette, Quinto, the three perimeters: souls, years, perimeters. The detail is in Streets and in the chapter on the villages in Stories.

The official neighbourhoods

The 26 units of Municipi 7 and 8

The city’s land-use plan divides Milan into local identity units, the NIL. These are the ones the City assigns to the area’s two municipi, in force since 5 February 2020. In bold those touching the crossroads, the stadium and the green space to the west: 57 San Siro and 60 Stadio–Ippodromi are described above, in «One name, four perimeters». Pagano and Sarpi are partly in other municipi too; the Parco Bosco in Città is assigned to 7 and partly to 8.

Comune di Milano · NIL in force PGT 2030Comune di Milano · PGT, list of NIL records by municipioWikipedia · Municipi di Milano

The boundaries

Where Milan ends, from via Novara

Milan borders twenty-three municipalities. From this street not all are reached: three sides, and then back to the crossroads.

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Video

QT8, on the northern boundary

The town planner Graziella Tonon tells the origin of Piero Bottoni’s model neighbourhood, next to Monte Stella.

From the photo collection

The area from above, in photographs

All records in the photo collection.

Further reading

Where it continues

• The two streets of the crossroads, in The crossroads.
• The streets, one by one, in Streets.
• The words of the area, in Glossary.
• The axis measured from the crossroads, in The spine.

Video

Monte Stella, told

Sources for this page

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The specific sources of each chapter are in the list of sources, entry by entry. Where two records differ the primary source prevails; if there is none, the disputed detail is not written.

What this page rests on

Every fact is checked against at least two independent sources and, where one exists, the official source.