Chinatown in Milan is an

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situated in the 8th quarter of

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

(

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), and it is an important commercial district. It is the oldest and largest Chinese community in Italy, with about 21,000 people in 2011. The Milanese Chinatown was originally established in via Canonica in the 1920s by immigrants from

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, in the

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province, and used to operate small textile and leather workshops. Today the district is filled with hairdressing salons, fashion boutiques, silk and leather stores, libraries, traveling agencies, medicine centres and massage parlours. The Chinese takeaways and restaurants in the area are mostly specialised in Zhejiang cuisine. Several Italian-Chinese companies are also headquartered in the neighborhood, including the editorial desk of the newspaper ''Europe China Daily''. Via Paolo Sarpi is the main street and is largely a pedestrian area. Other important locations are Via Bramante, Via

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Via Giovanni Battista Niccolini
in Milan, OpenStreetMap, retrieved 23 November 2014 and Via Aleardo Aleardi.

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