To celebrate our 40 th wedding anniversary on October 1 st , my husband and I booked a long weekend in Milan. We first got to know the city in 1984, when we taught English there as a second language. Needless to say, Milan has changed a great deal in 39 years, but it’s still as magical as I remember it. To plan our itinerary, we used two articles from the New York Times 36 Hours series; here are the links: from 2019 and from 2022 , and I’ll use that format for this post. THURSDAY EVENING We arrived at Stazione Centrale at about 7:30 pm and took the Metro to our Airbnb apartment in the Brera District, where our host was waiting for us at the front door to the building. What a sweetie! Knowing it was our anniversary, she had set out place settings for our breakfast, together with dark chocolate Baci in the shape of a heart. (Really regret not taking a photo!) Little did she know that Milan was where we first discovered Baci chocol...