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Palazzo del Credito Italiano
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Palazzo del Credito Italiano

📍 Municipio 1, Milan🖊 Luigi Broggi🏛 Italian national heritage

In Milan’s financial heart at Piazza Cordusio, the Palazzo del Credito Italiano translates banking power into architecture. Completed in 1901, it was designed by Luigi Broggi and inaugurated on August 25, 1902. The building’s most distinctive feature is its concave façade, shaped to fit the elliptic plan of the square, with the structure also lying adjacent to the Magazzini Contratti. For more than a century, this palazzo housed the offices of the Italian banking group Unicredit. That continuity ended in 2013, when Unicredit moved its operations to the newly built Unicredit Tower—a shift that marks how Milan’s corporate center has tilted upward and outward. …

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