Square

Piazzale Loreto

📍 Municipio 2, Milan

Piazzale Loreto is Milan’s major square, but its name reaches back to an older sanctuary dedicated to Our Lady of Loreto, from which the wider Loreto district also takes its identity. Beneath the public space, the Milan metro Loreto station sits partly under the square on line 1 and connects to line 2, whose tracks and platforms lie just under nearby Piazza Argentina. The square’s most defining moment came on 10 August 1944, when German occupation authorities carried out the public execution of 15 Milanese civilians—selected personally by Theo Saevecke, head of the Gestapo in Milan—as a reprisal for a partisan attack on a German military convoy. The executed men were left on display for days, and the event became known as the “massacre of piazzale Loreto,” later with the square temporarily renamed Piazza Quindici Martiri in their honour. …
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