The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, Italy, is not only Europe's oldest shopping mall but the oldest active mall in the world. Opened in 1877, this shopping arcade served as a thoroughfare between the Duomo and Teatro alla Scala.
The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II - was first designed in 1861. It took 12 years to complete and was finished in 1877. It's a four-story double arcade named for the first Monarch of Italy.
When the Southdale Center in Edina, Minnesota, opened its doors in 1956, its design was revolutionary. Southdale was the first modern indoor mall in the U.S., and eventually became a national symbol of car-centric, consumerist, postwar suburbia.
Because he invented the modern mall, Canadian journalist Malcolm Gladwell, writing in The New Yorker, suggested that "Victor Gruen may well have been the most influential architect of the twentieth century."
Prishtina Mall is the biggest shopping and entertainment mall in South-East Europe. With more than 200 premium local and international brands it is the main destination of the region, offering a diverse range of products and services to cater to the needs and desires of every shopper.
The Shambles in York is believed to be the oldest shopping street in Europe, even getting a mention in the Domesday Book of 1086! 📜 The overhanging timber- framed buildings date back as far as the fourteenth century.
London's Oxford Street remains the leading shopping capital of Europe. BNP Paribas Real Estate's latest Pan-European footfall report analyses the pedestrian traffic of prime retail streets in 34 European key cities, including Europe's top 20 Capital cities.
Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche was the first department store in the world. It opened in 1852 in Paris at the instigation of Aristide Boucicaut and his wife Marguerite.
Strada Sforii (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈstrada ˈsforij], meaning "Rope Street", German: Fadengasse) is the narrowest street in the city of Brașov, Romania. It is believed to be one of the narrowest streets in Europe (L'Androuno, in France, Spreuerhofstraße, in Germany, and Parliament Street, in England, are narrower).
The oldest shopping mall in the country, the Royal Exchange in the City of London. It's over 500 years old and was opened by Queen Elizabeth I so that shoppers could visit merchants in one place. Today it's home to high-end shops like Tiffany and Fortman & Mason, though some are not very busy.
Welcome to the world's biggest Primark, and our newest flagship store, located in the heart of Birmingham. In fact, this store is SO big that we won a Guinness World Record for it, and it's now officially the largest fashion retail store in the world!
Grün (sometimes transliterated as Gruen) is a German surname, literally meaning "green". Anastasius Grün, pseudonym of Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg (1806–1876), Austrian poet and liberal politician.
What was the first indoor shopping mall in the UK?
Brent Cross opened in 1976, by King Charles III and was the first indoor 'shopping mall' developed in the UK – this set a new standard for destination shopping.
On completion, Westfield London's size increased to 2.6 million square feet (240,000 m2), making it the largest shopping centre in Europe. The north side of the extension is bounded by a railway viaduct, and the south side of the extension is adjunct to the original shopping centre.
The American Dream is the second-largest mall in the United States and is known for its largest indoor water park, DreamWorks Water Park. Situated in East Rutherford, New Jersey, the mall features over 450 retail stores, an indoor ski slope, and a Nickelodeon Universe theme park.
In November 2021, IKEA opened its largest store in the world, measuring 65,000 square metres (700,000 sq ft), in the Philippines at the Mall of Asia Complex in Pasay City Manila. In March 2022, IKEA announced the closing of all 17 stores in Russia, resulting from the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
