I made my first visit to Milano Centrale (Milan Central Station) in February 2000.
Earlier this month (April 2017), I revisited this amazing example of railway architecture and made these photos using my Lumix LX7.
Recently, I featured Milano Centrale in my book Railway Depots, Stations & Terminals published by Voyageur Press.
Here’s an excerpt of my text:
Milano Stazione Centrale (Milan Central Station) is a monumental railway terminal that faces the Piazza Anrea Doria. . . [the station’s] design was the result of an architectural competition held in Milan in 1913 . . . Although the plan dated from before World War I, its blocky style and super human scale seems to typify the public architecture of the interwar Fascist period. [Milano Stazione Centrale] was one of the last great railway stations built in Europe before World War II.
Tracking the Light is Posting Automatically while Brian is Traveling.
The Milan station faced repeated construction delays; World War I and financial distress that followed the war set back construction by more than a decade. Work finally began is 1925 and six years later the station was completed.
When was it actually built?