Milan, Italy

Italy is padel's fastest-rising nation, and Milan is its sharpest expression — clubs with the design sense you'd expect, a city that takes its leisure seriously, and Lombardy's wider scene a short train away. Play in the morning, eat impossibly well at lunch, and understand why padel fits Italian life so naturally. Style and substance, on the same court.

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