Architecture
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II
Giuseppe Mengoni, 1865-1877
Show the style
Impressionism, Iron Architecture · chronological order 9
Where to see it
Piazza del Duomo
Milan · Italy
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.