Milan - Ospedale Maggiore

Southeast of Piazza Diaz, in an area rebuilt since the Second World War (with the Torre Velasca, a 99m/327ft high office block erected in 1958), is the old Ospedale Maggiore, a brick building 285m/312yd long, the town's first hospital, begun in 1456 by Antonio Filarete and continued from 1465 onwards in Gothic and Renaissance style. It now houses the Rector's Office and two faculties of the State university.