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The Caffè Cova is one of Milan, Italy's oldest pastry shops, delicatessens and coffeehouses, [1] [2] today property of the French group Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. Founded in 1817 by a soldier, Antonio Cova near the Teatro alla Scala, since 1950 situated in the fashionable Via Montenapoleone, part of Milan's quadrilatero della moda or fashion quadrilateral.
In 1943, during World War II, the hotel was bombed, and the fourth floor was destroyed; in 1946, after the war, architect Giovanni Muzio was engaged to restore and renovate the building. The hotel was popular with fashion designers in the 1960s and 1970s when Milan began hosting annual fashion weeks. In an early 1990s renovation, a defence wall ...
Piazza della Scala is a relatively recent addition to the plan of Milan's centre. The oldest building on the square, Palazzo Marino, dates back to the 16th century (completed in 1563); [2] at the time, nevertheless, the square did not exist (the area was occupied by buildings).
Hotel Florida Milan is a hotel in central Milan, Italy, located approximately 50 metres south of the Milano Centrale railway station in the "Stazione Centrale" district. [1] The hotel was originally built in 1949 and was modernised in 2004. The hotel has Italian marble and fine wood furnishings and has a private collection of contemporary art.
Beauvert, Thierry, Opera Houses of the World, The Vendôme Press, New York, 1995. ISBN 0-86565-978-8 Lynn, Karyl Charna, Opera: the Guide to Western Europe's Great Houses , Santa Fe, New Mexico: John Muir Publications, 1991.
Piazza della Scala: the statue of Leonardo da Vinci, Palazzo Marino (on the left) and the entrance of Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II (on the right) In 1848, after the Five Days of Milan, the palace was temporarily used as the seat of the new government of Lombardy. It was finally elected as Milan's city hall on 19 September 1861.
Teatro degli Arcimboldi (2009). The Teatro degli Arcimboldi is a theatre and opera house in Milan.It was built over a 27-month period in anticipation of the closure and subsequent nearly three-year-long renovation of Milan's La Scala opera house in December 2001.
Santa Maria della Scala was a church dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and located in the center of Milan. It was erected in Gothic style in the 14th century by Beatrice Regina della Scala, wife of the Lord of Milan Bernabò Visconti, and demolished in the 18th century to make way for a new theatre called Teatro alla Scala after her name.