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In 2026 All Saints’ Day falls on a Sunday: no long bridge weekend, but a full one anyway, with the Monumental Cemetery, the free museums of the first Sunday of the month and the Milanese tradition of pan dei morti. Here’s what you’ll find open and how to plan from the suite.
When: Saturday, October 31 and Sunday, November 1, 2026 (public holiday); Monday, November 2 is a working day
Where: all over Milan, with the Cimitero Monumentale (M5 Monumentale) as the signature stop
Tip: November 1 is also the first Sunday of the month: city museums are free, but Brera and the Last Supper require a reservation
November 1, 2026 is a Sunday, so the All Saints’ holiday coincides with the weekend and doesn’t create a long bridge. Monday, November 2, All Souls’ Day, is not a public holiday: offices, shops and services operate as usual. On Wednesday, November 4, National Unity Day, state museums are free, but it’s an ordinary weekday.
In practice, November 1 in Milan works like any other Sunday, just a little quieter: many Milanese go to the cemetery or out of town, while the center stays lively.
The Cimitero Monumentale (Monumental Cemetery) is where Milanese people go on All Saints’ Day, but it’s also a true open-air museum: the Famedio with illustrious Milanese, Liberty-style chapels, sculptures and tree-lined avenues. Admission is free; the usual hours are Tuesday to Sunday 8:00–18:00 (last entry 30 minutes before closing), closed Monday. On Sunday, November 1 it is therefore open as usual. For Monday, November 2 the City usually arranges extraordinary openings of cemeteries, but the 2026 hours have not yet been published: check the City of Milan website.
On November 1 and 2 in Lombardy people bring flowers to graves and eat pan dei morti (“bread of the dead”), a flat oval cookie made with crumbled dry biscuits, egg whites, cocoa, nuts, candied fruit and spices. It was a humble sweet, once handed out as an act of charity. You’ll find it in bakeries and pastry shops in the weeks around November 2: ask for it also at the bakeries on Corso Buenos Aires and in Porta Venezia, a few steps from the suite.
October 31, on the other hand, is increasingly Halloween night: for parties, venues and special openings, see our guide to Halloween in Milan.
November 1, 2026 coincides with the first Sunday of the month, which means:
All the rules and other free days are in the guide to free museums in Milan.
In Milan, Sunday is a normal day for shopping and November 1 is no exception: in the center, on Corso Vittorio Emanuele and on Corso Buenos Aires most shops are open, often with reduced hours. For supermarkets, each chain decides for itself: in 2025, on All Saints’ Day, many Esselunga, Carrefour, Lidl and other chain stores were open, with reduced or variable hours. For 2026 there are no announcements yet: check the app or the store’s page before heading out. In the suite’s neighborhood, local minimarkets remain the most convenient solution.
Restaurants and bars operate as usual; for Sunday lunch at the better-known places it’s best to book.
On November 1 ATM services follow the holiday schedule, like a Sunday: the metro runs all day but with less frequent trains than on weekdays, and some surface lines are reduced. You’ll find the exact times from your stop in the ATM app. Near the suite you have the M1 at Lima and the M2 at Loreto, both a 5-minute walk away. Tickets, day passes and contactless card payment are explained in our guide to getting around Milan.
If you’re driving to the cemetery, keep in mind that the area is very busy on the days of the dead: the metro is better.
Book Brera, the Last Supper and the Palazzo Reale exhibitions ahead of time; go to the Monumentale in the morning, when it’s calmer and the light is better; keep an umbrella handy, because in early November it often rains in Milan. Want to enjoy the All Saints’ weekend a stone’s throw from Centrale? Book the suite on this website: you pay 20% less than on the booking portals.
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