Torre Galfa

Melchiorre Bega's 1959 glass-and-steel tower near Centrale station — a crisp piece of Italian mid-century modernism, long abandoned before being revived as a mixed-use landmark. Its clean curtain-wall lines exemplify the optimism of postwar Milanese commercial architecture, and its rescue from dereliction became a small symbol of the city's renewal. For visitors interested in Milan's rich seam of mid-century towers, it stands alongside the Pirelli and Velasca as part of a remarkable cluster — a reminder that the city's architectural confidence didn't end with the Duomo but carried right through the boom years near the central station.