Stazione di Milano Centrale (Milan, Italy)

Milano Centrale (Stazione di Milano Centrale in Italian) is the main railway station of the city of Milan, and is the second railway station in Italy for passenger flow (after Roma Termini) and the largest railway station in Europe by volume.

The station 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.

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. The purported style was an eclectic mix called "Assyrian-Lombard." It features characteristic Art Nouveau, or Jugendstil, elements.

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 eventually 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.

Construction resumed in 1925, and on July 1, 1931 the station was officially opened in the presence of Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano.

The station played a major role during the Holocaust in Italy, when Jewish inmates from the San Vittore Prison, previously captured in northern Italy, would be taken to a secret track, Binario 21, underneath the station to be deported to extermination camps. Altogether, 15 deportation trains with 1,200 prisoners left the station from Binario 21. A Memoriale della Shoah was opened at the former platform in January 2013 to commemorate these events.

Information from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milano_Centrale_railway_station

Milan (Milano in Italian) is the regional capital of Lombardy (Lombardia) and the second-most populous city in Italy after Rome. In the 2020s, the city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city has 3.22 million residents. Milan is the economic capital of Italy and is one of the economic capitals of the European Union.

Milan is a major cultural center, with museums and art galleries that include some of the most important collections in the world. It also hosts numerous educational institutions, academies and universities. Founded around 590 B.C.E. under the name Medhelanon by a Celtic tribe belonging to the Insubres group and belonging to the Golasecca culture, it was conquered by the ancient Romans in 222 B.C.E., who latinized the name of the city into Mediolanum.

Today, Milan has been recognized as one of the world's four fashion capitals.

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