Navigli

The urban section of the Naviglio Martesana was covered over at the beginning of the 1930s, together with the entire Inner Ring, thus sounding the death knell for the north-eastern canals.

Commercial carrying continued on the Naviglio Grande, but the decline was steady and by the 1960s a project of a fluvial port to reach the Po River and consequentially the Adriatic Sea through the canals was shelved for good.

But the urban center of Milan has steadily grown, until modern times, around the first Celtic nucleus.

The Nirone lapped the ancient Mediolanum, while the Molia flowed near the settlement, collecting some irrigation from the north.

[4] In the 21st century the Navigli region of Milan is a highly active area with a large number of residential units, bars and restaurants.