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Piazza del Liberty, Milan

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Piazza del Liberty is a pedestrian square located along Via San Paolo, one block north of the Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, some 3 blocks north east of the Duomo in central Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy. The piazza was created in part in the space after the destruction of the Teatro Milanese during the Allied bombardment in 1943, and takes its name from the Art Noveau (Liberty style) facade decoration of one of its buildings. It is now complemented by chic shops and modern fountains. The white marble Liberty style facade of the former Hotel Corso, was designed in 1905 by Angelo Cattaneo and Giacomo Santamaria and erected at a building at nearby Corso Vittorio Emanuele II #15. That building was damaged by the 1943 bombardment, and subsequently demolished. The facade was repurposed for the monumental building or Palazzo della Società Reale Mutua di Assicurazioni Torino, built on the north of the piazza. Beneath the piazza in 1959 was built an underground theater; the piazza was reconstructed in 2018 by the designs of Norman Foster with a modern design of a sunken open air stage. At the western end, above he stage is a fountain with a series parallel spouts aimed at tall glass plates. A stairwell, flanked by the mirrored fountains, descends to the modern subterranean Apple store.

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Piazza del Liberty, Milan
Piazza del Liberty, Milan Municipio 1

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Piazza del Liberty 1
20121 Milan, Municipio 1
Lombardy, Italy
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Scior Carera
Scior Carera

Scior Carera (Milanese for 'Mister Carera'; IPA: [ˈʃuːr kaˈreːra]) and Omm de preja ('stone man'; IPA: [ˈɔm de ˈprɛja]) are traditional, popular names used to refer to an ancient Roman sculpture located in Milan, Italy, at No. 13 of Corso Vittorio Emanuele (next to the Duomo). Before being located where it is now (on the facade of a modern building) in the mid 20th century, the sculpture has been in different places around the city, most notably in Via San Pietro dall'Orto. It is a marble bas-relief dating back to the 3rd century, depicting a man wearing a toga, with the right leg slightly put forward; it has lost its arms as well as its head. The latter was replaced in the Middle Ages, supposedly to represent archbishop Adelmanno Menclozzi. The name Carera is a corruption of the first word carere (Latin for 'to lack') of the epigraph found below the statue, a sentence credited to Cicero: Carere debet omni vitio qui in alterum dicere paratus est ('Anybody who wants to criticise someone should be free from all faults'). Another inscription below this one recalls the former collocation of the statue in Via San Pietro all'Orto as well as the role this statue has played in the 19th century during the Austrian rule of Milan; at the time, in fact, there was the common habit of attaching satirical political messages to the statue, much like what happened in Rome with Pasquino and other "talking statues". In particular, the so-called tobacco riots that started the Five Days of Milan (whereby the Milanese quit smoking to cause economical damage to the Austrians) was possibly initiated on 31 December 1848 by a message attached to Scior Carera. Because of the role of the statue in the fight for independence of Milan, its name was used for a satirical journal (L'uomo di pietra, Italian equivalent of Omm de preja) that was published between 1856 and 1864 and again after 1878.