Palazzo Moriggia
Palazzo Moriggia stands in Milan’s Brera district as a neoclassical palace designed by Giuseppe Piermarini. Giuseppe Piermarini designed it in 1775 for the noble Moriggia family.
Its façade combines Doric and Ionic pilasters with a central entrance, columns, and a balcony. An arched portal opens onto a rectangular courtyard. That courtyard carries a portico of columns and arches, while the interiors once bore Giuseppe Traballesi’s painted decoration. The Second World War damaged the palace interiors.
Napoleonic administrations later used the palace for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of War. The Marquise Lucia Pallavicini acquired it in 1816. Rosa De Marchi Curioni later gave the building to Milan, enabling its transformation into the Museum of the Risorgimento in 1950. That museum documents Italy’s long history of unification.
Historical artefacts, paintings, and documents trace nineteenth-century Milan and the national identity shaped during the Risorgimento. A specialist library and archive support historical research.
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