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Designed by Bramante, this is one of Italy's most beautiful piazzas. The building of it was instigated by Duke Ludovico il Moro and work began in 1492. It was intended to serve as a stately forecourt to the castle. It is one of the earliest types of Renaissance piazza and also one of the few examples of a piazza conceived as a single piece of architecture. All in all, it can be regarded as one of the most complete urbanistic achievements to emerge in Lombardy in the whole of the fifteenth century.
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Western Europe
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