Piazza del Duomo

piazza, Milan, Italy

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In Milan: City layout
…economic activity; and the great Piazza del Duomo, laid out before the cathedral in 1489. Once French emperor Napoleon I made the city the capital of his empire in 1805, he embarked on an ambitious program of city planning, and an elegant boulevard (the Foro Bonaparte) was built around the…
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