Francesca from Milan

About me Despite my ID card proudly exhibiting four (!!) first names - an unfortunate joke from the registry office - I'm usually just called Francesca. As a child, I wanted to be an architect and then, by chance, I became an architect for real. I love playing tennis, I love animals and I love books. Most of all, I have to admit, I love food! I think cooking is one of the best ways to take s...

Aug 3, 2025

Largo La Foppa Milan

A dense urban asterisk

""Largo La Foppa" in Milan is an urban asterisk in more ways than one: it's a literal square & crossroads, but if Milan was a poem, this would a footnote..."

In the subtitle of this article, I defined Largo La Foppa as a dense urban asterisk. I find this is an honest and precise description, for more reasons than one.

First of all, simply for the shape of this crossroads: from this point, six streets begin, just like the symbol "*", which opens its directions like an asterisk, and each one runs further and further away from its very next.

Second reason: my comparison is properly symbolic, since this graphic sign has the function to attract the attention towards a specific concept and to explain it more thoroughly, given the importance of the topic. This is exactly what this point would be if Milan were a text: thinking of Milan as a poem, Largo la Foppa is one of the footnotes.

This crossroads has been wisely converted into a square littered with all kinds of activities. The partition of the functions and the spaces has been made with people in mind. The sidewalks are expanded to accommodate the many dehors - the flowerbeds have been transformed into benches.

If you wish, you can spend the whole day here having available the best offers for breakfast, lunch, a snack, dinner or a drink (before or after dinner). Just remember: you’ll have to drink it strictly outdoors like (and with) the locals, waiting for some acquaintance to pass by randomly.

Bars

Coffee & tea

Relaxing

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Largo la Foppa

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