San Siro has launched a new Skywalk tour that takes visitors along the stadium's roof at a height of 55 metres, offering an elevated view of the pitch below, according to Football Italia. The experience is the latest addition to the ground's public offering, and arrives at a moment when the stadium's future is far from settled.
The tour allows those who take it to look down over one of European football's most recognisable arenas from the upper reaches of its exterior structure. Football Italia reports the attraction is now open to the public, giving supporters and tourists alike a way to engage with the ground in a manner that goes well beyond watching a fixture from the stands.
San Siro — formally known as the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza — is shared by AC Milan and Inter Milan, the two clubs whose decades of rivalry have made it a landmark of the city as much as of the sport. The ground has hosted European finals, World Cup matches, and some of the most significant evenings in Italian football's history. Its architectural profile, with its distinctive spiralling ramps and cylindrical towers, is among the most recognisable in the world.
Yet for all its cultural weight, the stadium has spent several years at the centre of an unresolved argument about what should happen to it next. Both Milan clubs have at various points pursued plans for a new shared stadium in the surrounding area, with the existing structure potentially facing demolition once a replacement is ready. Preservation campaigners have pushed back, arguing that San Siro carries too much civic and architectural significance to be lost. No final decision has been reached, and the debate has stretched across multiple political administrations in the city.
In that context, the opening of the Skywalk tour carries a certain poignancy. For now, the ground remains in use and open to visitors in new ways; whether that remains true for another decade is a question neither club nor the city of Milan has yet answered with any certainty. Those who take the tour this summer will be walking the roof of a stadium that may, in time, exist only in photographs.