The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II
A covered double arcade formed of two glass-vaulted arcades at right angles
intersecting in an octagon, prominently sited on the northern side of the
Piazza del Duomo in Milan.Named after Vittorio Emanuele II, the first king
of united Italy, it was originally designed in 1861 and built by Giuseppe
Mengoni between 1865 and 1877.