Universal Exposition Milan 1906
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The city of Milan, seat of the next Universal Exposition in 2015, is not new to a similar event. In fact the city hosted in 1906 an international exhibition, then recognized by B.I.E., bureau International des Exposition, as one of the first Universal Exposition.
The Universal Exposition of Milan 1906, known as the Great Expo of Work, born with the aim to make a great international exhibition regarding trasportation to inaugurate the recent raiway Paris- Milan, in occasion of the completed Alpine Tunnel of Sempione.
Milan was national and international protagonist of the trade show activity, but the good occasion to show to world the growing industrial Milan came with the construction of Alpin Tunnel of Sempione, a railway tunnel long 20 km that linked Milan to the great capitals of Europe. The Exposition called “Nautical and Overland Trasportation” became a great event and hosted great representatives of agriculture, sciences, social, enough to became the First Italian Universal Exposition.
The Exposition was organised into 200 stands in a expositive surface( including Smpione Park and D'armi Square)of a milion of mq to the presence of ca. 10 milions of visitors from all over the world. Such as London and Paris, the Exposition of Milan 1906 leaved a sign with the construction of Civic Aquarium, still today one of the most representative buildings of the city.
The Exposition of Milan ratified the economical and social rebirth of Milan, consecrating it as italian industrial capital.
