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Location:
Europe,
Italy, Milan
Category:
Street view
Description:
View of
Milan
Central Station, city train station,
Milano Centrale
Location Information:
Milano
Centrale is the main railway station
of the Italian city of Milan and one
of the main European railway
stations. It is a railway terminus
officially inaugurated in 1931 to
replace the old (1864) central
station, which was a transit station
and could not handle the new traffic
caused by the opening of the Simplon
tunnel (1906). It connects to high
speed lines to Bologna (and on to
Rome) and Turin and conventional
railways to Bologna, Turin, Venice,
Genoa, Domodossola (for the Simplon
and Bern), Chiasso (for the Gotthard
and Zürich Hauptbahnhof) and Lecco.
King
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy laid
the cornerstone of the new station
on April 28, 1906, before a
blueprint for the station had even
been chosen. The last, real, contest
for its construction was won in 1912
by architect Ulisse Stacchini, whose
design was modeled after Union
Station in Washington, DC, and the
construction of the new station
began.
Due to the Italian economic crisis
during World War I, construction
proceeded very slowly, and the
project, rather simple at the
beginning, kept changing and became
more and more complex and majestic.
This happened especially when Benito
Mussolini became Prime Minister, and
wanted the station to represent the
power of the fascist regime.
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