Architecture

Andrea Pizzala

1798–1862Local figure

Andrea Pizzala

Addresses you can still visit

Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.

  • Created here

    Grand Hotel et de Milan

    Giuseppe Verdi used this hotel as his Milanese residence for nearly three decades, usually staying in apartment 105. Admirers followed him here after the triumph of Otello, and he died at the hotel on January 27, 1901.

  • Burial place

    Monumental Cemetery of Milan

    One of Milan’s two largest cemeteries, known for an extraordinary concentration of artistic tombs, family mausoleums, and memorial sculpture.

  • Created here

    Palazzo del Toro and the Lost Galleria De Cristoforis

    Pizzala designed the Galleria De Cristoforis, the pioneering covered shopping street erased during the 1930s redevelopment.

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