Città Studi (literally, "studies city") is a district ("

quartiere A (; plural: ) is a territorial subdivision of certain Italian towns. The word derives from (‘fourth’) and was thus properly used only for towns divided into four neighborhoods by the two main roads. It has been later used as a synonymous ...

") of

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

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...

, located within the Zone 3 administrative division. Its name comes from the fact that the Politecnico technical university, as well as most technical and scientific branches of the

University of Milan The University of Milan ( it, Università degli Studi di Milano; la, Universitas Studiorum Mediolanensis), known colloquially as UniMi or Statale, is a public university, public research university in Milan, Italy. It is one of the largest uni ...

, are based in this area. The area also houses several prominent hospitals of Milan, including the IRCCS National Cancer Foundation and the

Carlo Besta Neurological Institute The Carlo Besta Neurological Institute is a hospital and research institute in Milan. Is known to be one of the most important neurological hospitals in the world. History The Carlo Besta Neurological Institute was founded in 1918. In 1981 the ...

. There are plans to relocate the University of Milan from Città Studi to the former Expo campus at Rho fiera by 2025, which have met considerable opposition.https://it.wikinews.org/wiki/Milano:_Una_citt%C3%A0_per_tutti_%3F_Il_futuro_di_Citt%C3%A0_Studi_si_chiama_Universit%C3%A0

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