The Italian Jews deported from Milan's hidden platform
More than 300,000 people a day pass through Milan's main railway station - the Stazione Centrale. Few are here for the history.
In the past, poor Italians arrived from the south, immigrants in their own land searching for a better life in the dank northern city. Today's arrivals are more likely to be tourists looking for a taste of Italian fashion and culture, or commuters from Milan's hinterland.
The current station was completed in 1931 during the heyday of Italian Fascism. A ceramic mural over the former royal waiting room features victorious Italian troops saluting their king. They're giving the straight-armed Fascist salute.
Unseen, unimagined, beneath the feet of today's travellers lies a more troubling reminder of the price paid by many during Italy's Fascist era, a vast abandoned station for the city's goods and mail trains....
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In the past, poor Italians arrived from the south, immigrants in their own land searching for a better life in the dank northern city. Today's arrivals are more likely to be tourists looking for a taste of Italian fashion and culture, or commuters from Milan's hinterland.
The current station was completed in 1931 during the heyday of Italian Fascism. A ceramic mural over the former royal waiting room features victorious Italian troops saluting their king. They're giving the straight-armed Fascist salute.
Unseen, unimagined, beneath the feet of today's travellers lies a more troubling reminder of the price paid by many during Italy's Fascist era, a vast abandoned station for the city's goods and mail trains....