Palazzo Luraschi

Hidden jewel

This palace is one of the historic buildings in Milan .... it is located in Corso Buenos Aires AK number one .. Very beautiful, tall and imposing ... it must be seen ....

Magnificent residential building full of history

Architecturally interesting, but also curious A massive and imposing palace on the corner between Piazzale Oberdan and Corso Buenos Aires (in the nineteenth century it was called "Stradone di Loreto"), built between 1881 and 1887 by the master builder Angelo Galimberti on a project and on behalf of the architect architect Ferdinando Luraschi , which had purchased part of the newly demolished Lazzaretto area. A six-storey building above ground that caused quite a few bad moods because it had broken the historic "servitude of the Resegone" which required that the houses built in the northern part of Milan should not exceed three floors in order not to prevent the view of the Prealps and - above all - of Mount Resegone, immortalized by Alessandro Manzoni. A building, the first in Milan (and one of the first in Italy) built in reinforced concrete, with a rich façade in an eclectic style: on the ground floor and on the mezzanine a clew decoration (with stone blocks placed in overlapping rows) which is taken up again in the central part of the building; a monumental serliana portal surmounted by the balcony of the main floor supported by telamons, balconies, balconies, windows surrounded by bands and surmounted by curvilinear or triangular gables, a long band (under eaves) of terracotta decorations, a beautiful carved wooden door. A palace that respects the Milanese tradition because it has a beautiful porticoed courtyard with terracotta decorations: some columns saved from the demolition of the Lazzaretto were used to build it (apparently there are 4, in Baveno granite); and in it, among the arches, - perhaps to make peace with Manzoni! - medallions were inserted with the busts of the characters of I Promessi Sposi.

An apartment building. Specific to Italy, several apartments - a palazzo

A stunning architectural monument. If the doors to the courtyard are open, be sure to drop by. Majesty and beauty

In the courtyard the terracotta tondi depicting the characters of the Betrothed ... they are all there!

Milan hides unexpected beauties, here's the beautiful Palazzo Luraschi, also known as the House of the Betrothed. It is a palace built almost at the end of the 1800s on the territory that was then part of the Lazaretto. In the courtyard, twelve busts of the characters of "I Promessi Sposi" by Alessandro Manzoni are on display. The choice falls on these faces because the story tells that Lucia, to escape the plague, took refuge in this very place, even if today no historical memory remains.