Via Paolo Sarpi is the main thoroughfare, now pedestrianized, in one of the most lively working class districts in town. A large number of Chinese people settled here between the two world wars, at first selling silk ties made around Como.
.:. Today, owing to recent further waves of immigrants, Milan's Chinatown has become more crowded. There are still a number of workshops, producing particularly leather goods, concentrated in Via Canonica and Via Rosmini, and the area is also densely populated with artisans, iron workers, glasscutters and carpenters, whose busy shops fan out into the side streets.
.:. Shops here tend to close during the lunch break, what doesn't happen in the other main shopping districts. The flow of shoppers and window shoppers is especially incessant on Saturdays, when Via Paolo Sarpi really comes alive with its crowds. The shops in this area are by tradition quite reasonable in price, but of good quality.

HOW TO GET THERE. From the Moscova subway station, walk a few steps down Via Volta and you reach Piazzale Baiamonti, where Via Paolo Sarpi starts.

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