Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Gallery, Milano, Milan, Lombardy, Italy, Europe. The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is a shopping arcade in Milan that, in the form of a covered pedestrian street, connects Piazza Duomo to Piazza della Scala.Due to the presence of elegant shops and clubs, since its inauguration it was a meeting place for the Milanese bourgeoisie so much so that it was nicknamed the "living room of Milan": built in neo-Renaissance style, it is among the most famous examples of European iron architecture and represents the archetype of the nineteenth-century shopping arcade. Simply called "the Galleria" by the Milanese, it is often considered one of the first examples of a shopping center in the world
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