Highline Milano

Highline Milano tickets: a booked time on the Galleria roof

The Highline lets at most 150 people onto the roof each hour, so you go in at a booked time: you choose the day and the hour when you buy, or take an open-date ticket and choose them later. The plain ticket is sold on the Highline’s own website, highlinegalleria.it, and at its ticket desk on the ground floor of the Galleria. The desk takes cards or cash and charges no booking fee, but it only sells for the same day or as an open-date ticket.

A full ticket costs €15 (Highline prices, October 2026). The open-date ticket, €20, lets you pick the day and time later, which is why it works as a present.

Reduced tickets need ID at the desk. Weekends are the busiest days and whole hours sell out, and on a crowded day nobody can promise you a place without a booking, so a weekday time booked ahead is the safe plan.

The ticket is good for one entry, at the time on it, and the Highline allows up to 60 minutes’ delay. There are no refunds for turning up late or for light rain; in severe weather the roof closes and the tickets are refunded.

Highline Milano with the YesMilano City Pass

Both YesMilano passes include the Highline as one of their 14 premium activities. The Standard gives you just one of the 14, so the roof would be your pick; the All-Inclusive covers every one of them.

With either pass you book your slot in the YesMilano app first, then show the voucher at the Highline desk on the day. If the roof is one of several things you want to see, our page on Milan Pass and Milan’s city passes has each pass’s list. None of the other passes we sell includes the Highline.

Up on the Highline: the Skywalk, the clock room and the terrace

The visit starts on the sixth floor, which you reach by a public lift or the stairs. From there the Skywalk runs for 250 metres along the iron and glass vaults, 40 metres above the street, from the La Scala end towards the Duomo, with more than 50 panels along the way.

Plants, benches with a view and neon pieces by the artist Letizia Prestipino line the walkway, and along it are the Clouds, small lookouts set among plants and solar panels. The Skybridge crosses between the north and south wings and doubles as a gallery, with Infinito, a light installation by the designer Davide Groppi.

Inside the building, the Sala degli Orologi is open to the public for the first time. It holds the Centrale degli Orologi, a machine from 1932 that kept Milan’s public clocks on time, and since 7 October 2026 it also has an exhibition, Guardare fino al cielo (“looking up to the sky”), included in the ticket.

A glass lift takes you up to the panoramic terrace on top of the entrance arch. It looks straight at the Duomo and the Madonnina, the statue on its highest spire, and until 2026 no visitor had been up there; on a clear day the Alps show behind the city.

Give it an hour, as the Highline suggests. The audio guide is free and plays on your phone, so bring headphones and a data connection, and children get a leaflet of games at the entrance.

Highline Milano opening hours and the rules on the roof

The hours are the same all year round, with no shorter winter timetable.

Some dates sell out for private events. The Highline’s site says nothing about Christmas, New Year or Easter, while YesMilano warns that 25 December, 1 January and Easter may bring shorter hours or a closure.

The outdoor stretches are grated walkways, and the route has stairs, narrow corridors and lookouts at height. The Highline says the new section on the facade is wheelchair accessible but the full route isn’t. Staff may check your bag, smoking is banned, and so are running and leaning out over the edge.

The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II below: free, and open at all hours

Walking through the Galleria itself costs nothing, at any hour; it’s only the roof that’s paid. Giuseppe Mengoni, the architect who won the competition to design it, saw work start in 1865, and King Victor Emmanuel II opened it in September 1867, still unfinished. The arch on Piazza del Duomo was completed in 1878.

Mengoni never saw it open: on 30 December 1877, the day before the arch was due to open, he fell from the scaffolding and died.

Look down as well as up. The mosaics in the floor show the coats of arms of Turin, Florence, Rome and Milan, and Turin’s is a bull: turn three times on your right heel on it and it’s meant to bring you luck. So many people do it that the mosaic keeps wearing through and has to be restored.

The glass roof you walk beside was destroyed by Allied bombing in August 1943 and rebuilt by 1955, and the Galleria had a major restoration in 2014 and 2015, before Milan’s Expo. That’s when the rooftop walk first opened, in time for the Expo, and visitors could use it until 2019. In 2023 the Comune ran a competition to reopen it, and Duomo 21, a company run by a team under 35, won. The Highline’s name has nothing to do with the High Line in New York.

The Galleria also houses the Leonardo3 Museum, where Leonardo da Vinci’s machines are built from the drawings in his notebooks.

Duomo metro, two minutes from the Highline

The nearest metro stop is Duomo, on the M1 and M3, two minutes on foot from the Galleria, and Cordusio on the M1 is five. Trams 1, 2, 12, 14, 16 and 19 stop at Scala or Duomo, buses 57, 60, 84 and 94 at Duomo or San Babila, and the NM3 night bus passes too. The Galleria is inside Area C, the city’s restricted traffic zone, so leave the car behind.