Milan, or Milano is the largest city in the Northern Italian province of Lombardy. It is a thriving industrial city of 850,000 people and is one of the cities where Mussolini's Fascists have their strongest power base.

Milanese companies such as Alfa Romeo and Pirelli provide a large number of relatively low paid jobs and consequently the city has a large number of tenement blocks, locally called Ringhieri.

In contrast to the urban sprawl of tenements and factories Milan also contains a number of architectural and cultural treasures to rival any in Rome including its famous cathedral, the internationally renowned La Scala opera house and Leonardo Da Vinci's painting 'the Last Supper'.

Milan is home to a faction of The Brothers of the Yellow Sign, members of which include Giuseppe Colombo, Thomas Villiers, Roberto Anzalone and Malcolm Quarrie. Colombo's offices are found in the Navigli region of Milan, an industrial area threaded by a network of canals used to transport goods.

Abzalone and Quarrie's 'Pilgrimage of Grace' was funded by the local university, and is supported by the Italian army, who sent along Major Ricardo Delnegro from the local Alpini regiment of skilled mountain troops.