Durini Street

The Durini is a family of the Milanese nobility. Belonging to the nobility of Como, assert themselves with the mercantile, first in Como and then to Milan, where they act in the early seventeenth century by exercising the activity of bankers.

 

They decide to build a new palace in the current Durini street tha architect Richini design. The work ends in 1648. Set on strong horizontal elements, the building was centered on the portal that includes three windows and holding the balcony, an element of great prestige that would correspond perfectly to the needs of "magnificence" and seriousness at the same time requested by clients .
In Durini street there is the home of Arturo Toscanini: The building is an eighteenth-century building on three floors, with a portal from conch ashlar, dominated by the element most characteristic of the house: the balcony andalusia style, definitely a unique piece in Milan , and probably in Italy