Milan is increasingly the protagonist of many television dramas filmed in Italy. There are those who choose the new skylines of Porta Garibaldi as “Studio Battaglia” and of CityLife as “Doc in your hands” and those who, instead, focus on the more historic, but less obvious neighborhoods, as they did for “Il clandestino”, the RAI TV series starring Edoardo Leo in the role of ex-agent Luca Travaglia.
The plot of “The Clandestine”
The former chief counter-terrorism inspector Luca Travaglia he decided to leave the police following an attack carried out by his partner Khadija, of Libyan origin, who died in the explosion, in which even the youngest of his agents, Sergio Bonetti, was paralyzed and lost the use of his legs. Unable to overcome this terrible trauma, Luca decides to move from Rome to Milan, where he begins working as a bouncer in nightclubs and as a bodyguard, going to rent the garage of Palitha, a Sri Lankan who runs his own roadside assistance call The illegal immigrant will help Luca solve some cases that he finds himself having to face despite himself.
The locations in Milan of “Il clandestino”
Those from Milan will surely recognize some real locations in the scenes of the 12 episodes of the fiction. Many are located in the area Brera-Corso Garibaldiin the historic city centre, and along the Dersena sui Navigli, places that are often proposed again, because they are the places where Luca loves to walk alone, but there are also the peripheral neighborhoods of Piazzale Corvetto, Lambrate and the brand new NoLo neighborhood (North of Loreto), where, in the very popular Via Padova, the co-protagonist’s workshop is located. There is no shortage of iconic images of the Lombard capital, Piazza del Duomo illuminated at night, the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele and some incomparable views of the city.
The places of Brera-Corso Garibaldi
In the penultimate episode they recognize the truth very well greengrocer in Corso Garibaldi at number 18 where Luca follows a young drug dealer and a fight breaks out between the two, and the apartment where Carolina (Alice Arcuri) lives which overlooks Piazza del Carmine, one of the most frequented squares by young Milanese people due to the clubs, created in a delightful boutique hotel, one of the Milanese addresses that have still remained rather secret.
The State University
Some scenes were filmed in one of the most secret courtyards of the University of Milan in the headquarters of Ca’ Granda. In what was once the headquarters of the Maggiore hospital, today of the State University of Milan, there is a courtyard that is a small jewel, the Cortile della legnaia which dates back to 1486, where some scenes with Luca were set.
