Milano in TRAM

The history of Royal Palace

The Royal Palace of Milan was born with the name of the Palace of Old Broletto and, during the period of the Commons in the Middle Ages, it was the seat of the government.
The palace became the political center during the rule of the families Torriani, Visconti and Sforza, when, after the construction of the Cathedral of Duomo, it underwent a restructuring under the government of Francesco Sforza.
During the second half of the eighteenth century, under the rule of the Habsburgs, the Palace was a place of pompous court life and worked important artists and architects that embellished the Palace with ornaments and decorations that were inspired by the Theresian Baroque. Thanks to the job of Giuseppe Piermarini from 1771 to 1778, the Palace underwent a major transformation neoclassical which made it as we see now. From that moment it was the seat of important kings and queens like Mary Theresa, Napoleon, Ferdinand I and the Savoy. Illustrious artists celebrated the glories of these kings and emperors and enriched the Palace with art, paintings and furniture.
In 1920 it became property of the state and returned to citizens.
In 1943, for the bombing of the Second World War, part of the building was destroyed. Of particular importance is to remember the Hall of Caryatids on the first floor of the Palace, which occupied the site of the old theater burned in 1776 and is the only site survived to the bombing of 1943, when it lost the neoclassical interior.
After a restoration of twenty years, only at the beginning of the twenty-first century it was possible to see the complete renovation of the Palace.