Vittorio Emanuele II Gallery

Vittorio Emanuele II Gallery is Italy's most established dynamic shopping center and a noteworthy point of interest of Milan, Italy. Housed inside a four-story twofold arcade in the focal point of town, the Galleria is named after Victor Emmanuel II, the principal lord of the Kingdom of Italy. It was composed in 1861 and worked by draftsman Giuseppe Mengoni in the vicinity of 1865 and 1867. The structure comprises of two glass-vaulted arcades crossing in an octagon covering the road associating Piazza del Duomo to Piazza della Scala.

The road is secured by a curving glass and cast press rooftop, a famous plan for nineteenth century arcades, for example, the Burlington Arcade in London, which was the model for bigger coated shopping arcades, starting with the Saint-Hubert Gallery in Brussels opened in 1847, the Passazh in St Petersburg opened in 1848, the Galleria Umberto I in Naples opened in 1890 and the Budapest Galleria. The focal octagonal space is finished with a glass vault. The Milanese Galleria was bigger in scale than its antecedents and was a vital advance in the development of the cutting edge coated and encased shopping center, of which it was the immediate forebear. It has roused the utilization of the term galleria for some other shopping arcades and shopping centers.