Piazza Mercanti

Address: Via Orefici - Milano
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Description: # # foto1 Merchants Square is a square in Milan created as a center of city life in medieval times. It was to create from the middle of the thirteenth century with a rectangular plan, in originalne of the most extensive. It opened six entrances, referring to many city activities, which took the name the streets (Armorari, Spadari Cappellari, Orefici). In the middle there arose the"Palazzo della Ragione", or New Broletto (completed in 1233 for the will of the mayor Oldrado from Tresseno, as the seat of judicial activities. With this building consists of a room overlapsis a loggia, begins shooting range in various cities of Lombardy, first of all Monza, with its Arengario, whose forms we refer to those originating in ours, before processingeighteenth information. The Palace of Reason underwent a major transformation with the cannot. This increase dates back to 1773, when the municipal hall with loggia was transformedta, under Maria Theresa of Austria, headquarters of the notary, by the then senior architect Francesco Cross (among other designer in Milan spire of the highest Dome). Cross reause the current plan attic with circular windows and voltatura of the porch, which previously was covered by a framework of beams and axles. The building dominates the northern side of Piazza current, but was originally at the center of a square-shaped rectangular porticos, isolated from other buildings. foto2 # # To the west lies the "Palace of Notaries" or "house Panigarola "(fifteenth century, Gothic style) and Angle, on the southern side of the square, the palace of Palatine Schools" (Baroque opera by Carlo Buzzi of 1645), instead of the background "of SchoolsBroletto "the fourteenth century. In this there is the Loggia of Osii", created in 1316 by the will of Matthew I Visconti by Scotus from San Gimignano, as amended in the seventeenth and eighteenth century and restored inand original forms in 1904, which houses the statue of the patron of the city and the center of the floor above the Deal, from which it proclaimed the edicts. Finally to the east lies the "palace of Giureconsulti "(by Vincenzo Seregno of 1561), which svetta the century" Torre del Comune "seventeenth century, rebuilt in a well At the heart of the sixteenth century, surmounted in the eighteenth century by two columnswith entablature.

Address: Via Orefici - Milano