Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Piazza del Duomo entrance

The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is a covered arcade situated on the northern side of the Piazza del Duomo in Milan, connecting to the Piazza della Scala. Named after King Victor Emmanuel II (It. Vittorio Emanuele II), the first king of united Italy, it was built by Giuseppe Mengoni between 1865 and 1878. Download high resolution version (1200x1600, 414 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (1200x1600, 414 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The Cleveland Arcade in downtown Cleveland (late 1960s) An arcade is a passage or walkway covered over by a succession of arches or vaults supported by columns, or else it is a covered passage fronted by a series of arches. ... Location within Italy Piazza della Scala Milan (Italian: Milano; Milanese dialect: Milán) is the main city in northern Italy, and is located in the plains of Lombardy, the most populated and developed of Italian regions. ... Victor Emmanuel II (Italian: Vittorio Emanuele II; March 14, 1820 – January 9, 1878) was the King of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia from 1849–1861. ... Italian (italiano   listen?) is a Romance language spoken by about 70 million people, most of whom live in Italy. ... 1865 is a common year starting on Sunday. ... 1878 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

The street is covered over by an arching glass and steel roof, thus giving it a claim to be the world's first shopping mall. The four story arcade includes elegant shops selling most things from 'haute couture' to books, as well as restaurants, cafes and bars. The materials definition of a glass is a uniform amorphous solid material, usually produced when a suitably viscous molten material cools very rapidly, thereby not giving enough time for a regular crystal lattice to form. ... Steel framework Steel is a metal alloy whose major component is iron, with carbon being the primary alloying material. ... The Mall, an out-of-town shopping centre at Patchway, near Bristol, England. ...

While it is probably the first purpose-built mall in Italy, the Passazh on the Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg is certainly of a similar if not older date. Nevsky Prospect, or the Neva Avenue (Russian: Íåâñêèé ïðîñïåêò), is the main thoroughfare in the city of St Petersburg. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland...

The Milanese Galleria has inspired many others; see Galleria. Galleria (Italian for gallery or arcade), or The Galleria, is a common name for a shopping mall, ultimately deriving from the 19th-century Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan. ...

Directly connectod the the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is Milan's ultra-luxurious Park Hyatt hotel, offering the city's most luxurious (and most expensive) rooms and facilities.

See also

• Agora
• Bazaar
• Forum