Milano Centrale railway station

Milano Centrale is the main railway station of the city of Milan, Italy, and is the second  busiest railway station in Italy (after Roma Termini). Data from grandistazioni.it (July 2007) It is  at the northern end of central Milan. It is the largest railway station in Europe. 

The station is a terminus.  It opened in 1931.  The old central station built in 1864  could not handle the increased traffic caused by the opening of the Simplon Tunnel in 1906.

Milano Centrale has high-speed connections to Turin in the west, Venice via Verona in the east and on the north–south mainline to Bologna, Rome, Naples and Salerno. The Simplon and Gotthard railway lines connect Milano Centrale to Basel and Geneva via Domodossola and Zürich via Chiasso in Switzerland.

The Milan suburban railway service does not use Milano Centrale but the other mainline stations: Porta Garibaldi (northwest), Cadorna (west) and Rogoredo (east).

Architect Aldo Rossi said in an interview of February 1995 to Cecilia Bolognesi:Aldo Rossi, Luoghi Urbani, Unicopli 1999, p. 31 "They told me that when Frank Lloyd Wright came to Milan, and he came only once, he was really impressed by it and said it was the most beautiful station in the world. For me it is also more beautiful than Grand Central Station in New York. I know few stations like this one".

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Category:Buildings and structures in Milan
Category:Railway stations in Italy
Category:1931 establishments in Italy