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Milan
Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nearly 1.4 million, while its Metropolitan City of Milan, metropolitan city has 3.2 million residents. Within Europe, Milan is the fourth-most-populous List of urban areas in the European Union, urban area of the EU with 6.17 million inhabitants. According to national sources, the population within the wider Milan metropolitan area (also known as Greater Milan) is estimated between 7.5 million and 8.2 million, making it by far the List of metropolitan areas of Italy, largest metropolitan area in Italy and List of metropolitan areas in Europe, one of the largest in the EU.* * * * Milan is the economic capital of Italy, one of the economic capitals of Europe and a global centre for business, fashion and finance. Milan is reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lombardy
The Lombardy Region (; ) is an administrative regions of Italy, region of Italy that covers ; it is located in northern Italy and has a population of about 10 million people, constituting more than one-sixth of Italy's population. Lombardy is located between the Alps mountain range and tributaries of the river Po (river), Po, and includes Milan, its capital, the largest metropolitan area in the country, and among the largest in the EU. Its territory is divided into 1,502 ''comuni'' (the region with the largest number of ''comuni'' in the entire national territory), distributed among twelve administrative subdivisions (eleven Provinces of Italy, provinces plus the Metropolitan City of Milan). The region ranks first in Italy in terms of population, population density, and number of local authorities, while it is fourth in terms of surface area, after Sicily, Piedmont, and Sardinia. It is the second-most populous Region (Europe), region of the European Union (EU), and the List of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milano Centrale Railway Station
Milano Centrale () is the main railway station of the city of Milan, Italy, and is the second busiest railway station in Italy for passenger flow (after Roma Termini) and the largest railway station in Europe by volume. The station is a terminus and located at the northern end of central Milan. It was officially inaugurated in 1931 to replace the old central station (built 1864), which was a transit station that could not handle the increased traffic caused by the opening of the Simplon Tunnel in 1906 due to the old station's limited number of tracks and space. Milano Centrale has high-speed connections to Turin in the west, Venice via Verona in the east and on the north–south mainline to Bologna, Rome, Naples and Salerno. The Simplon and Gotthard railway lines connect Milano Centrale to Basel and Geneva via Domodossola and Zürich via Chiasso in Switzerland. Destinations of inter-city and regional railways radiate from Milano Centrale to Ventimiglia (border of France), Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan City Of Milan
The Metropolitan City of Milan (; , ) is a Metropolitan cities of Italy, metropolitan city (not to be confused with the Milan metropolitan area, metropolitan area) in the Lombardy region of Italy. It is the second most populous metropolitan city in the nation after the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital. Its capital is the city of Milan. It replaced the province of Milan and includes the city of Milan and 132 other ''comuni'' (: ''comune''). It was first created by the Metropolitan cities of Italy, reform of local authorities (Law 142/1990) and then established by the Law 56/2014. It has been operative since 1 January 2015.The Metropolitan City of Milan is headed by the Metropolitan Mayor (''sindaco metropolitano'') and by the Metropolitan Council (''consiglio metropolitano''). Since June 2016 Giuseppe Sala (politician), Giuseppe Sala, as mayor of the capital city, has been the mayor of the Metropolitan City. Government Metropolitan Council The new Metro municipalities, giving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milan Cathedral
Milan Cathedral ( ; ), or Metropolitan Cathedral-Basilica of the Nativity of Saint Mary (), is the cathedral church of Milan, Lombardy, Italy. Dedicated to the Nativity of Mary, Nativity of St. Mary (), it is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milan, Archbishop of Milan, currently Archbishop Mario Delpini. The cathedral took nearly six centuries to complete: construction began in 1386, and the final details were completed in 1965. It is the largest church in the Italian Republic—the larger St. Peter's Basilica is in the State of Vatican City, a sovereign state—and one of largest in the world. History Milan's layout, with streets either radiating from the Duomo or circling it, reveals that the Duomo occupies what was the most central site in Mediolanum, Roman Mediolanum, that of the public basilica facing the Forum (Roman), forum. The Santa Tecla, Milan, first cathedral, the "new basilica" (') dedicated to Saint Thecla, St Thecla, was completed by 355. It seem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Council Of Milan
The City Council of Milan () is the top tier legislative power, legislative body of the Milan, municipality of Milan, Lombardy, Italy. It consists of the directly elected mayor of Milan and of an elected 48-member assembly, which controls the mayor's governing actions and has the authority to enforce his resignation by a motion of no confidence. The City Council is elected for five-year terms. Its seats are assigned Proportional representation, proportionally to each party and list, with a majority bonus being awarded to the winning coalition to guarantee governability. The last election was held on 2021 Milan municipal election, 3-4 October 2021. The City Council meets at Palazzo Marino, located in Piazza della Scala, Zone 1 of Milan, Municipality 1. Composition The political system of the Comune, Comuni of Italy was changed in 1993, when a semi-presidential system for the mayoral election was introduced. Previously, the Council was elected under a pure proportional representat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II
The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II (; ) is Italy's oldest active shopping arcade and a major landmark of Milan. Housed within a four-story double arcade in the centre of town, the ''Galleria'' is named after Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of the Kingdom of Italy. It was designed in 1861 and built by architect Giuseppe Mengoni between 1865 and 1877. Architecture The structure consists of two glass-vaulted arcades intersecting in an octagon covering the street connecting Piazza del Duomo to Piazza della Scala. The street is covered by an arching glass and cast iron roof, a popular design for 19th-century arcades, such as the Burlington Arcade in London, which was the prototype for larger glazed shopping arcades, beginning with the Saint-Hubert Gallery in Brussels (opened in 1847), the Passazh in St Petersburg (opened in 1848), the Galleria Umberto I in Naples (opened in 1890), and the Budapest Galleria. The central octagonal space is topped with a glass dome. The Mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sforza Castle
The Sforza Castle ( ; ) is a medieval fortification located in Milan, northern Italy. It was built in the 15th century by Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan, on the remnants of a 14th-century fortification. Later renovated and enlarged, in the 16th and 17th centuries it was one of the largest citadels in Europe. Extensively rebuilt by Luca Beltrami in 1891–1905, it now houses several of the city's museums and art collections. History The original construction was ordered by Galeazzo II Visconti, a local nobleman, in 1358 – 1370; this castle was known as the ''Castello di Porta Giova'' (or ''Porta Zubia''), from the name of a gate in walls located nearby. It was built in the same area of the ancient Roman fortification of ''Castrum Portae Jovis'', which served as '' castra pretoria'' when the city was the capital of the Roman Empire. It was enlarged by Galeazzo's successors, Gian Galeazzo, Giovanni Maria and Filippo Maria Visconti, until it became a square-plan castle wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayor Of Milan
The mayor of Milan (; ) is the first citizen and head of the municipal government of the city of Milan, Lombardy, Italy. The current office holder is Giuseppe Sala (politician), Giuseppe Sala, a centre-left independent who has been in charge since 2016 Milan municipal election, 2016 leading a progressive alliance composed by the Democratic Party (Italy), Democratic Party, Green Europe and some Civic List (Italy), civic lists. The last election took place in 2021 Milan municipal election, 2021. Overview According to the Constitution of Italy, Italian Constitution, the mayor of Milan is a member of the City Council of Milan, Milan's City Council. The mayor and the other 48 city councillors (''consiglieri comunali)'' are elected by the Italian and EU citizens residing in Milan. Concurrently, albeit with a different ballot paper, nine presidents and 270 councillors are chosen for the nine assemblies of the Municipalities of Milan, nine municipalities, often referred to as zones, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Tallest Buildings In Milan
This list of the tallest buildings in Milan ranks buildings in Milan, Italy by height. Milan is the capital and largest city of the region of Lombardy, with a city proper population of 1.4 million. The wider Milan metropolitan area, spanning over has a population of over 6 million, making it the most populous metropolitan area in Italy, ahead of the capital, Rome. Milan is home to the majority of skyscrapers and high-rises in Italy, and has the country's tallest building, Unicredit Tower, an office skyscraper built in 2012 that reaches 217.7 metres (714 feet) in height. Milan's earliest high-rises date back to the 1950s, where a few significant tall buildings were constructed: the mushroom-shaped Torre Velasca, the modernist Pirelli Tower, Grattacielo Pirelli, and the international-style Galfa Tower, Torre Galfa and Breda Tower. This was followed by a period from the 1960s to the 1990s when few high-rise buildings were completed. In the 2010s, Milan saw a rise in the construction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milanese Dialect
Milanese (endonym in traditional orthography , ) is the central variety of the Western dialect of the Lombard language spoken in Milan, the rest of its metropolitan city, and the northernmost part of the province of Pavia. Milanese, due to the importance of Milan, the largest city in Lombardy, is often considered one of the most prestigious Lombard variants and the most prestigious one in the Western Lombard area. In Italian-language contexts, Milanese (like most indigenous Romance varieties spoken in Italy other than standard Italian) is often called a "dialect". This can be misunderstood to mean a variety of the Tuscan-derived national language, which it is not. Lombard in general, including Milanese, is a sister language of Tuscan, thus also of Italian, rather than a derivative. Typologically, Lombard is a Western Romance language, and more closely resembles other Gallo-Italic languages in Northern Italy (e.g. Piedmontese, Ligurian, Emilian, Romagnol) as well as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milan Metropolitan Area
The Milan metropolitan area, also known as Grande Milano ("Greater Milan"), is the largest metropolitan area in Italy and the List of metropolitan areas by population, 54th largest in the world. Definition Given the absence of an official statistical definition for the metropolitan area of Milan, tracing precise boundaries is a somewhat slippery issue. However, during the last decade, a number of studies have been carried out on the subject by some authoritative institutions and scholars, notably the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and numerous Italian sources that build a definition based on commuting fluxes and on the concentration of commercial, leisure and public utility services. A broad consensus exists upon a definition that includes the central Lombardy, Lombard provinces of Province of Milan, Milan, Province of Bergamo, Bergamo, Province of Como, Como, Province of Lecco, Lecco, Province of Lodi, Lodi, Province of Monza and Brianza, Monza and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porta Sempione
Porta Sempione ("Simplon Gate") is a city gate of Milan, Italy. The name is used both to refer to the gate proper and to the surrounding district (''quartiere''), a part of the Zone 1 division (the historic city centre), including the major avenue of Corso Sempione. The gate is marked by a landmark triumphal arch called Arco della Pace ("Arch of Peace"), dating back to the 19th century, although its origins can be traced back to a gate of the Roman walls of Milan. The gate History A gate that roughly corresponds to modern Porta Sempione was already part of Roman walls of Milan. It was called ''Porta Giovia'' ("Jupiter's Gate") and was located at the end of modern Via San Giovanni sul Muro. At the time, the gate was meant to control an important road leading to what is now Castelseprio. Very little remains of the original Roman structure; some Roman tombstones that used to be placed by the outer side of the walls have been employed in the construction of later buildings suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
