The Royal Palace of Milan was designed by Giuseppe Piermarini, with Leopold Pollack on the 1773 renovation, for Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este. The infobox gives no dates. The text says the renovation began in 1773 and was completed on June 17, 1778. The palace has older roots as the Palazzo del Broletto Vecchio.
The article calls the style Neoclassical, with a plainer exterior that moved away from Baroque. It names no materials. The palace has about 75,000 square feet (7,000 square meters) across three floors.
It was renamed the National Palace under Napoleon and the Royal Palace in 1805. Bombing in 1943 heavily damaged it and destroyed the Hall of Caryatids. Picasso's Guernica was exhibited there in 1953. It is a cultural center hosting art exhibitions, and a wing has housed the Great Museum of Milan Cathedral since 2013. The article gives no hours.
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