Milano is the second largest city of Italy, and arguably its main industrial hub.

Growing and developing in an almost uninterrupted way since Roman times, Milan enjoys an economically strategic position in the centre of the Po Valley, eventually causing it to develop a strong industrial sector which fueled quick industrialization around the major factories such as Breda and Pirelli, bringing wave of recent immigrants to the city.

Cosmopolitan and complicated like all great cities, Milan was both the birthplace of the early fascist movement and, later, a major hub of antifascist dissent.