Milano in TRAM

• MILAN CENTRAL STATION
It’s the main station in the Lombard capital, the second one in Italy for its passengers’ flow after Roma Termini and before Torino Porta Nuova, besides, it’s one of the main railway stations in Europe.
We talk about a railway terminal inaugurated officially in 1931 to replace the old Central Station (1864), a station transit that could not sustain the traffic caused by the Traforo del Sempione’s opening (1906).
The station will be the single point of intersection of the “high speed road” (TAV), between the lines Torino-Milano-Venezia, Milano-Roma-Napoli and Milano-Genova.

• THE HISTORY

-THE FIRST CENTRAL STATION
The first Central Station in Milan was inaugurated in 1864, in the place where now we can find Piazza della Repubblica.
The project was of the French architect Louis-Jules Bouchot and his architectural style was the same one of the buildings in Paris.
The first central station remained in operation untill 30th of June 1931, since when the new one replaced it.

-THE NEW CENTRAL STATION
King Vittorio Emanuele III put the first stone of the second central station on 28th April 1906.
The built started in 1926. Because of the economic problems in Italy, during the First World War, the project advanced slowly and it continued to change becoming more and more majestic and complicated.
This fact happened especially when Benito Mussolini, the head of the governement, wanted the station to become the representation of the regimen.