Overlooking Via Montenapoleone , a stone's throw from the Scala, the Duomo and the greenery of the gardens of Villa Reale and Palestro, Borgospesso 18 is the natural habitat for those who have always lived here and also for those looking for a home in Milan that always make you feel at home. A DIVE INTO MILAN'S HISTORY Borgospesso: the name of the street dates back to the Middle Ages when this area was a district of villages : Borgo di Santo Spirito , Borgo del Gesù , Borgo di Sant'Andrea and finally Borgoforte, the most crowded of buildings. Via Borgospesso had its maximum splendor at the time of Giuseppe Verdi and the Milanese Scapigliatura, when musicians, writers, intellectuals and revolutionaries met at no. 15 in the literary salon of Donna Vittoria Cima, frequented by Arrigo Boito, the famous librettist of La Traviata, lover of the actress Eleonora Duse. Today via Borgospesso is lined with elegant period aristocratic residences , such as Palazzo Gallarati Scotti at number 7, and examples of industrial architecture of the twentieth century now converted into showrooms and stores of famous fashion houses. There is no shortage of examples of contemporary style such as the perfect red volume at n. 11, a rationalist work by Ignazio Gardella.