Portello is a district (" quartiere ") of Milan , Italy , part of the Zone 8 administrative division of the city, located north-west of the centre. It is best known as a car-manufacturing area, as it used to house facilities of Alfa Romeo (now dismissed), Darracq , Citroën , and Fiat . The district also includes one of the major shopping malls in north-western Milan. It is crossed by the Circonvallazione ring road . Portello is adjacent to the new CityLife district.
5-450: Portello may refer to: Portello (district of Milan) , a car-producing district of Milan, Italy Portello (Milan Metro) , an underground rail station Portello (soft drink) , a type of fruit-flavored soft drink Portello Gate or Porta Ognissanti, in the walls of Padua, Italy Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
10-402: Is based on the general theme of time . It will comprise a large round lake, with a strip-shaped promontory that will allow pedestrians to walk to the center of the lake itself. A helix shaped hill (called "The Spiral of Time") will provide a panoramic view of the city; an artistic representation of the double DNA helix will be placed on top of the hill. Both the lake and the hill will be part of
15-472: The title Portello . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portello&oldid=1075038963 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Portello (district of Milan) Portello
20-566: Was later replaced by the new Strada del Sempione ("Simplon Road") leading to the Simplon Pass ; the old Portello road is now known as "Via Traiano". In turn, the road was named after the Portello city gate , that was part of the city walls and that was located in the surroundings of the modern Cadorna railway station . The design of Parco Vittoria, by architects Charles Jencks and Andreas Kipar, includes several unusual elements, and it
25-512: Was one of the major urban requalification process in Milan, as the former Alfa Romeo area (385,000 m²) is now being restructured. The project includes a major park called Parco Vittoria and what will become the largest plaza in Milan (20,000 m²), as well as commercial, service and housing infrastructures. The name of the district comes from the "Strada del Portello" (Portello road), an ancient rural road that used to connect Milan to Rho , and that
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