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DIRECTORY
Ticket Agencies
Acitour Lombardia
Corso Venezia 43.
Map 4 E4.
Tel 02-76 00 63 50.
ACP & Partners
Piazza E Duse 1.
Map 4 F4.
Tel 02-76 00 25 74.
Autodromo Nazionale
Parco di Monza.
Tel 039-248 21.
∑ monzanet.it
Automobile Club Milano
The Mediolanum Forum at Assago is a sports arena which is also used for concerts (see p197) Corso Venezia 43.
Children In the summer months (Jun– Map 4 E4.
Tel 02-76 00 34 47.
Milan does not have extensive Sep), Gardaland Water Park is a
specialist enter tainment available popular place with slides, pools Ricordi Box Office
for children. However, some of and shows that will entertain Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II.
the museums and galleries are youngsters and adults alike. Map 7 C1.
Tel 02-72 00 70 31.
quite child-friendly. To stimulate Children over the age of
the young imagination and 12 who are keen on video games La Scala Box Office
provide lots of interesting can try out one of the numerous Galleria del Sagrato (inside
educational material, there are amusement arcades in the city. Duomo metro station)
the Planetarium (see p122) and A good place for entertaining Tel 02-72 00 37 44.
the Science and Technology smaller children is Play Planet, a ∑ teatroallascala.org
Museum (see p90), as well as recreation centre where kids can Ticket It
the Civic Aquarium (see p70). let off some steam or become Tel 02-542 71.
MUBA is the first museum involved in some of the creative ∑ ticket.it
entirely dedicated to children. workshops on offer. Play Planet Ticket One
It has interactive exhibitions, is open all year round, and there Tel 892 101.
games, events and workshops are also two rooms in which ∑ ticketone.it
to encourage creative thinking birthday parties can be held.
and learning through play. In sunny weather, head to a Children
The Teatro delle Marionette local public park. The most
is a popular children’s puppet suitable parks for children are Fun & Fun
theatre that performs classic the ones at Porta Venezia and Via Beroldo 2.
plays and famous novels. For Via Palestro, where theoretically Tel 02-26 14 42 94.
pure entertainment, the no one is allowed to enter ∑ funefun.it
amusement park at the unless they are accompanied Gardaland Water Park
Idroscalo is a good choice. by a child. There is also a large Via G Airaghi 61.
play area with an Tel 02-48 20 01 34.
electric train in Parco ∑ gardalandwaterpark.it
Sempione (between Idroscalo (Fun Park)
Piazza Castello and Via Rivoltana 64.
Piazza Sempione), Tel 02-70 20 10 39.
near the Arco della ∑ lunaeuropark.it
Pace. Fun & Fun is
the biggest covered MUBA (Children’s Museum)
playground in the Via Besana 12.
city. Created in Tel 02-43 98 04 02.
collaboration with an ∑ muba.it
expert in educational Play Planet
psychology, it offers Via Airolo 4.
numerous play Tel 02-668 88 38.
areas arranged by ∑ playplanet.it
age, and there are Teatro delle Marionette
comfortable and Via Oglio 18.
colourful sofas for Tel 02-55 21 13 00.
Inside children’s museum MUBA the adults to relax.

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