Foro Bonaparte

Architecture

Boro Bonaparte was a plan by Giovanni Antonio Antolinilans to redesign Milan in the around the Sforza Castle which Napoleon had begun to demolish.  The projected proposed keeping the core of the castle, adding a facing of Doric columns, and developing a vast circular plaza around, some 570 meters in diameter. Surrounded by a Doric colonnade, the plaza was to be bordered by administrative buildings, ministries, courthouses, baths, theatres, universities and museums. Although Napoleon was strongly behind it, it was finally deemed too ambitious for a city the size of Milan.