Luigi Cagnola

Marchese Luigi Cagnola ( born June 9, 1762, Milan, † 14 August 1833 in Inverigo ) was an Italian architect.

Cagnola visited the Clementine College in Rome and the University of Pavia. Actually, he was intended for the legal profession and worked for the Austrian administration in Milan, but ultimately opted for the architecture. His project for the Porta Orientale (later Porta Venezia) in Milano was praised, but not realized for reasons of cost. Cagnolas temporary wooden triumphal arch on the occasion of the wedding of Eugène Beauharnais with Princess Augusta Amalia of Bavaria in 1806 was so well received that it was decided to execute it in marble. As a result of today's Arco della Pace. Also the outer castle gate in Vienna was built in 1821-1824 by Peter Nobile, designed by Luigi Cagnola by soldiers of the Austrian army. Cagnola also designed the Milan Porta Ticinese, called the Napoleonic era Porta di Marengo, and the Campanile of Urgnano.