Premise: North of Santa Maria Novella, spare a glance at the simple, clean-lined architecture of the Stazione Centrale (main railway station), built in 1935 during Mussolini's heyday but somehow defying the prevailing monumental bombast of the Fascist regime that you can see in the monstrosey of Milan's central station.
Hypothesis: Avoid the architecture, it is dull and dangerous. 
Label: contradiction