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Fieramilanocity

The Fiera di Milano City is the trade fair system of the city and of the metropolitan area of ​​Milan.

In 1881 the great National Exhibition took place in Milan at the Public Gardens of Porta Venezia, the construction was entrusted to the Carpenteria A. Brambilla of Milan. And it is also at the Bastioni that, in 1920, the first trade fair took place, organized by a special body, the Royal Autonomous Body of the International Fair of Milan.

Three years later the organization definitively moved the exhibition to the "New Piazza d'Armi", an area that since then and for decades will be known as the Milan Trade Fair, near the current Piazza Amendola underground station. This area of ​​the city had already hosted a similar event, in 1906, on the occasion of the opening of the Simplon Tunnel, when Milan hosted the Universal Exposition.

This was distributed by the authorities over two areas, the "Old Piazza d'Armi", now better known as Parco Sempione, planted on this occasion, and the "New Piazza d'Armi".

The two areas, a couple of kilometers apart and divided by a railway freight yard, were connected by an electric train. Currently, the freight yard and the union train no longer exist.

More technical and commercial themes found a place in the pavilions of the New Piazza d'Armi, while in the Old Piazza d'Armi the focus was more on art and science.

In the latter area, nine years earlier, in 1894, the "United Expositions" were held.

Even today the Aquarium is located in Parco Sempione, one of the last vestiges that made up this section of the Exhibition, also because it was built in stone, while numerous pavilions were built in wood, such as the Architecture and Fine Arts section, which was destroyed by a fire (together with the relics of the Fabbrica del Duomo).

The Nuova Piazza d'Armi, on the other hand, as mentioned above, became the exhibition center of Milan, known as the "Fiera Campionaria". In 1928, at the inauguration of the IX edition of the Campionaria, a bomb attack: a bomb, placed in a lamp post in Piazza Giulio Cesare, killed 20 people who were waiting for the passage of King Vittorio Emanuele III who had to pass to inaugurate the Fair.

In 1985 the exhibition park changed its name to the April Fair, but in 1991 the calendar reaches the calendar year.

In 1997 other pavilions were opened in the North-West area at Portello (former Alfa Romeo area). It is the latter born that, in view of a further expansion of the Fair in the municipality of Rho, have become the only active area of ​​the old district, currently (since 2007) undergoing renovation based on the CityLife project.

Currently, the Milan Fair consists of the two exhibition centers of Fieramilano (located in an area on the border between the municipalities of Rho and Pero) and Fieramilanocity (located in the Portello district of the municipality of Milan).

Extending over a total area of ​​753,000 m², it is the largest exhibition center in Europe.

Map: Fieramilanocity