Impressionism, Iron Architecture ·
chronological order 9
A covered shopping arcade built in Milan by Giuseppe Mengoni between
1865 and 1877 to link the Piazza del Duomo with the Teatro alla Scala.
Its iron and glass roof, with a central dome 47 metres high, was one of
the first big examples of the commercial “iron style” that would spread
across Europe (GUM in Moscow, the Galleria Umberto I in Naples). It now
holds the most expensive shops in Milan, and a McDonald’s.
