The Portrait
The Navigli is where Milan admits it once had canals, and the Naviglio Grande is still lined with the buildings that used them. Maison Borella is one of them: a former balustrade house, kept as a house, with an internal courtyard you pass through to get to your room.
It is small and independent, four stars, with a restaurant on the ground floor and the canal outside the front door. The courtyard is the thing the photographs undersell — it is the reason the rooms are quiet in a neighbourhood that is not.
No published nightly rate; the reservations line and the email above are the direct route.
Who it suits: a traveller who wants to be in the part of Milan people actually go out in, in a building with a history, and who does not need a kitchen.
Written by the Selloua editors from the address’s own published facts. Nothing in this entry was paid for.