The best outdoor pools for refreshment in Milan | Architectural Digest of Italy

The best outdoor pools in Milan: blue relief, the need to take a breath from the stressful heat that is holding entire neighborhoods hostage. Especially on the hottest days when the humidity does not subside and the air remains stillbecomes appropriate, saving, go to the water or stay close to them cooling tanks.

Like so much else in the city, the best outdoor pools go beyond their simple function: they are improved

and design, bypass the symbolic monuments of the capitalmeet where it can be expected and where it is not, for example, in front of a historic theatre.

Pools they are snobbish or democraticopen to all, at prices stellar here and popular there, also transverse geographically: both in the center and on the outskirts, in the center of nightlife and outside the ring road.

for this guide we chose elevenwith a practical approach: telling where they are, how to enter, what atmosphere characterizes them. Actually there are eleven plus one, because you have to take into account the imminent arrival, which this will further increase the level of pleasure associated with water

: Debuting this fall W Milan, with a festive and joyful atmosphere that characterizes the brand’s hotels. It will be a stone’s throw from Brera and La Scala, and it will have a rooftop with a Roman-style swimming pool, where aperitifs humming by the pool – with those who willingly get into them – is one of the liveliest pastimes in the world. The eternal City.

Waiting to enjoy the W next hot season, let’s break out of this summer’s clutches by chilling in the precious seaside corners of hot Milanwho knows how to give it his all, even in a bathing suit.