San Donato is the city Enrico Mattei built around an idea: Metanopoli, the "capital of methane" born in the 1950s with Eni's towers, modern churches and garden quarters for employees — an experiment in corporate urbanism unique in Italy, still legible on a walk among the headquarters buildings. Here boom-era Italy designed itself.
The old village around the parish church recalls the farming town that was; the abbeys of Viboldone and Chiaravalle are minutes away. By the yellow metro line, the Duomo is fifteen minutes: San Donato is South Milan's tidiest front door.
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