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 Anguissola Antona Traversi palace
The facade, built between 1829-30 by the architect Luigi Canonica for the Antona Traversi family, boasts a granite base on which stands giant Corinthian columns that encloses the two upper floors; swans, lire and vines swirl upwards to the crowning. From the courtyard you can access the garden, which is set amongst an elegant facade designed by the architect Carlo Felice Soave in 1775-78 for the previous owners, Anguissola, according to the dictates of the first neoclassicism. Plaster and paintings of that era decorate the halls of this factory's interior, some of which was "upgraded" in between 1829-30.

 Cadorna Station - The Needle and Thread square and monument
The station originated in the last quarter of the XIX century to link-up the train rails to the pre-alpine hinterland, utilizing a design by the Belge Albert Vaucamps. It was completely renovated in 1956; the building underwent a global restyling (Gae Aulenti) to which we owe the new façade, the coluorful metalic bus shelter, and the sculpture Needle-and-Thread by Claes Oldenbur and Coosje van Bruggen.

 Colonna della Peste
Returned since 1998 to its original location, after having been moved to the foot of the belltower of the parish church in 1928, it is now to be found in Piazza San Vittore between Via Matteotti and Via Garibaldi. It was constructed in 1644 to commemorate the place where the canons of Rho celebrated open air Mass. Placed on a four-faceted pedestal, its smooth granite stem tapers to a corinthian capital, which holds the iron cross with the aid of a support.

 La Castela
From the church square you can see the nearby piazza Immacolata, with its towering 18th-century column bearing a statue of the Madonna, known as the "Castela".

 Meridiana
It can be seen painted on the Torazza, the building facing onto Piazza Santi Pietro e Paolo, and the "new old" clock of Arese. In 1995 a group of guests at the Casa di Riposo proposed the creation of a New Meridian, to replace the iron pole testifying to the old measurement of time (in place up until 1984 when the building was restored), and a Meridian Committee was formed. The New Meridian was inaugurated on 28 February 1999 in the presence of all those participating in the project.

 Milano Central Railway Station
The Central Railway Station of Milan is one of Europe's main railway stations, Italy’s second largest station in terms of size and traffic volume, with around 600 trains per day, two metro lines, the nearby Railway Link, the terminus of a number of urban bus and tram lines and shuttle buses to the airports. The terminal was officially inaugurated in 1931 to replace the old Stazione Centrale (1864), which was a transit station and which could not cope with the new traffic caused by the opening of the Sempione Tunnel (1906).

 monument to the fallen
The work of Father Ambrogio Fumagalli, in bronze, mosaic and glass, was placed in 1989 in the park next to the Municipal Building of Novate Milanese. Standing on three bases that rest inside a mosaic based basin, the work is made up of the bronze statue of a man collapsed over a parallelopied who, while on death's doorstep, as is clear from the criss-cross poles standing at his back, lives eternally in the peace of resurrection, represented by the intense and varied light from the window.

 Monumento alla Resistenza
The monumento alla Resistenza, designed by Bottoni and by Anna Praxmayer, retraces in 13 stages the fight against the Fascists with scenes scored in a concrete wall that gradually becomes higher before soaring the skywards with a Victory, which frees a flight of bronze doves.

 Palazzo della Permanente
The Palazzo della Permanente, located in via Turati, was built between 1883 and 1885 by the society for Fine Arts and Permanent Exhibition, an organisation that promotes painting and sculpture exhibitions. The building, designed by the architect and art historian, Luca Feltrami, has a neo-renaissance style facade, and has been playing its role as cultural diffuser for many years now, both in the Milanese context and world-wide. The palace, officially inaugurated on 25 April 1886, hosts numerous temporary exhibitions and a permanent collection of twentieth century works, with masterpieces by well known figures like Modigliani, De Chirico, Fontana, Boccioni, Marini and Morandi. The works focus on Italian art in the early decades of the XX century, from Futurism to Metaphysics to the Twentieth Century group and on a lesser scale, the Italian artistic trends of the fifties and sixties.

 Pillar of Verziere
The enormous granite column in Baveno was erected in the middle of the herb market (Verziere) to celebrate the end of the plague of 1576-77. In 1673 the festoon trabeations were added and the statue of the Redentore (Francesco Maria Richini).

 Pusterla of Saint Ambrogio
To erect the brick towers and the double arch entrance of the Pusteria, in 1939 parts of the locally found 1171 defensive walls were reused. The 14th century tabernacle comes from the hospital Galeazzo II Visconti had opened at the corner of present day Via De Amicis and Via San Vittore.

 Tarsis Palace
Palazzo Tarsis, built between 1836 and 1838, is an example of late neoclassical architecture, rises in via San Paolo, which crosses corso Vittorio Emanuele. The building which is the work of the architect Luigi Clerichetti, has a main facade that is characterised, in the central part, by an open gallery with rows of gigantic Corinthian columns, and on the upper part, above the cornice, by a series of Dii Consentes (Consenting Gods) (a group made up of the twelve main gods from Roman mythology) created by Luigi Marchesi and Gaetano Manfredini. The entrance to the building, in ashlar stone finishing, composed of ashlar (stones protruding from the wall), is made up of a set-back main entrance and delimited by two Doric columns. Count Paolo Tarsis ordered that the palazzo be built, as a residence of mixed ownership and rental apartments, it is still owned by the historic family.

 War memorial
In piazza della Vittoria is the monument to the people of Cuggiono who died in the First World War. It consists of a figure of a winged woman, made of bronze and tied by her feet to a bridge pillar, in the process of making the final effort to free herself. It represents the victory of the 1915/18 war, "chained to the Piave" according to the expression of Gabriele D'Annunzio. On the dilapidated pillar there is the dedication: "Cuggiono to the Artefices of Victory" and the water that surrounds it is meant to represent that of the famous river. The statue is the work of the sculptor Arrigo Minerbi. The first stone was laid in 1923, it was inaugurated in 1924.

 War memorial
Brick structure dated 1945/46 was carried out by Carlo Bonomi, who designed the large tower with a vaulted base that remembers the fallen.