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Milano Italia

title: MILAN FOUNTAIN IN PIAZZA CASTELLO

subject date: 2017-06-06

caption: MILAN Piazza Castello, the Filarete tower is the backdrop to the imposing fountain, which is affectionately called by the Milanese "The Wedding Cake". Built by the AMA in 1936, dismantled in the 1960s to allow the work of subway line 1 and no longer restored until the nineties, its "mysterious" disappearance fueled at that time the most imaginative explanations, including the supposed appropriation By a well-known Milanese politician who would have rebuilt her in a foreign property. Photo-engraving manually colored bianconero photography; Postcard, Milan 1956.

category: HIS

city: Milano

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Italia

credit: Fototeca Gilardi

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place: Milano

file date: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

object name: 71552

priority: 0

multiplying price: 1.00

pricing: default

continent: Europa

image century : XX

image epoch: Anni Cinquanta

subject century: XX

subject epoch: Anni Cinquanta

technique: Fotoincisione

id: 40165

file name: FSNgilardi_71552.jpg

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