The “Milanese”, but also who has transformed the city into his home away from home, call it “la Rossa” (the Red). It is the line 1 of Milan subway, the first ever, that in fact this November celebrate its 50th birthday. The subway, or “metrò” as they call it in Milan, which connects the Duomo with the rest of the city is the protagonist of the exhibition Milano Sottosopra, organized by Metropolitana Milanese. With a series of unpublished vintage photographs they presented the history of the construction of the first subway of Milan: a vast open-air yard which for nearly eight years, from 1957 to 1964, the year of the inauguration, has put Milan, and his bewildered inhabitants, literally “upside down”. Milanese citizens are accustomed to modernity, but Milan always knows how to amaze: epic are the pictures of curious, often interrogative people staring at engineers and workers at the construction of the subway. Even the director Ermanno Olmi, in 1961, immortalized the contruction process, in his movie Il Posto. The place chosen for the show is obviously Expo Gate: located right in front of the station of the red line Cairoli, where half a century ago was declined the first convoy, is the symbol of a contemporary turning poiny, yet another, for the city of Milan.
