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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 04/06/2026 16:39:00

A slender steel lattice piercing the trees of the Parco Sempione in central Milan, the Torre Branca rises just over a hundred and eight metres above the park and offers one of the best views over the city. Designed by the great Italian architect Gio Ponti and built in only sixty-eight days, the tower was inaugurated in August 1933 for the fifth Milan Triennale. The tower height was carefully calibrated by the regime of the time to fall a few centimetres short of the gilded Madonnina on top of t...