Exploring Municipality 4 of Milan, starting at San Donato and moving through Rogoredo, Porto di Mare and into Corvetto. Italy, 22/11/23
Corvetto (Corvett in Milanese dialect , AFI : /ˌkurˈvɛt/ , formerly Gamboloita) is a neighborhood of Municipality 4 of Milan , located in the south-eastern area of the city.
Origins of the name
In the past the neighbourhood was called Gamboloita due to the presence of a farmhouse with that name, now demolished. From a document from the Municipality of Milan we read, regarding the now destroyed Gamboloita farmhouse: " In the area once called Gambalavita, and which later became Gamboloita, there stood an eighteenth-century patrician residence, reduced to a farmhouse, of which trace has also been lost in the documents In fact, although it was demolished only a few years ago, only the baroque gate with large pillars is remembered, reported by Nebbia in a sketch "
Nowadays, the name used to refer to the neighborhood derives from the square dedicated to Luigi Emanuele Corvetto , a Genoese politician and jurist.
History
Historically the area was located in the south-eastern part of the municipality of Corpi Santi of Milan , on the border with the municipalities of Nosedo and Vaiano Valle (Pismonte locality). The municipality of Corpi Santi was aggregated to the municipality of Milan in 1873.
The neighborhood was the subject of intense building activity by the Istituto Autonomo Case Popolare . In fact, in the second half of the 1920s the Mazzini neighborhood was born, between the lines of Via Polesine and Via Comacchio on one side and Viale Enrico Martini and Via dei Cinquecento on the other.
The Corvetto has undergone a profound redevelopment with the creation of the new headquarters of the Municipality of Milan in Via Sile, and has become an aggregation area for artists, Italian and foreign, of the contemporary avant-garde, which has led to the birth of numerous art galleries art and events that have made it the contemporary art district of Milan of international interest.
Infrastructure and transport
The area takes its name from the square of the same name . From here six roads unravel: towards the south-east and towards the north-west Via Carlo Marochetti and Corso Lodi unravel respectively , i.e. the urban penetration part of the state road 9 Via Emilia , which connects Milan (Porta Romana) to Rimini; towards the north, Viale Lucania unfolds, part of the so-called "External Ring Road of the Regions", which reaches as far as Piazza Francesco Durante (formerly Piazza Rottole ). The square is crossed by an overpass which, going over it, connects Via Marocchetti to Viale Lucania.
In the neighbourhood there are two stations of the M3 line of the Milan metro, Brenta and Corvetto . Furthermore, not far away is the Porto di Mare station , located within the adjacent Nosedo district .
Various bus lines and one trolleybus , operated by ATM , connect Corvetto to the surrounding neighbourhoods. Until 10 May 1993 , the Corvetto was also served by a tram line , which was abolished following the activation of the metro
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