Urban representation: Piazzale Loreto
The Rotonda di Loreto is one of the historic roundabouts opened in 1820 along the tree-lined road that connected Palazzo Reale and the Royal Villa of Monza in a more quick way.
There is approximately nothing left of the nineteenth-century rondo. The square was enlarged as early as the thirties, old houses were demolished. Fortunately, there remains only one building, the one on the corner between Via Andre Costa and Via Porpora. Other buildings built around the square are all of post-war period. Among all, there are a few of them worthy of note. The one is Palazzo di Fuoco designed by Giulio Minoletti and inaugurated in 1962.
To the east of the square, between via Porpora and viale Abruzzi, there is the most recent of buildings, built in the late eighties. It is the office complex, designed by Claudio Dini in 1979. At the foot of this nine-storey building there is the Teleios sculpture by Giacomo Benevelli, always covered with graffiti.
