Piazza Affari, or rather Piazza degli Affari, is one of the most important squares in the city of Milan, famous above all for hosting the headquarters of the Italian Stock Exchange.
For this reason the term Piazza Affari is now commonly used to indicate the company that manages the Italian stock market.
Piazza degli Affari is today a symbol of the entire Italian economy and the structure that houses the stock exchange is called Palazzo Mezzanotte, an imposing building built in the early 1930s.
Understood as a stock exchange, Piazza Affari was founded in 1808 at the behest of Eugene of Beauharnais and with a decree signed by Napoleon Bonaparte. During the 19th century, other trading places also began to spread, but among these the main one remains the Milan Stock Exchange, on which the main industrial companies of the country are now listed.
After the economic boom of the 1950s, privatization arrived for Piazza Affari in 1997: the company Borsa Italiana S.p.A was born which from that moment became the only one to manage the Italian regulated markets.
