A white 3D print of La Scala, a neoclassical opera house with a broad entrance front, among the streets and buildings of central Milan.

3D print La Scala

A free, printable model of La Scala, its block and entrance front, and the streets and buildings of central Milan around it, generated from real map data in your browser.

Make this print Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
  • La Scala model, North view North
  • La Scala model, East view East
  • La Scala model, South view South
  • La Scala model, West view West
On a 160 mm print
12 mm
Scale
1:3,750

12 mm tall on a 160 mm print

Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.

  1. A compact city block

    La Scala fills a tight block among its neighbors, so its detail is crowded at the default size. Print it larger and use layers of 0.12–0.16 mm to keep the front and roofline readable.

  2. Fine layers for the front

    The entrance front carries most of what the model shows, and vertical detail there benefits from a fine layer height: 0.12–0.16 mm keeps the lines crisper than a coarse setting.

  3. One piece with the ground

    La Scala is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.

  4. Pick the detail for your nozzle

    In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.

  5. Colors

    Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. La Scala takes the building color.

  6. File format

    You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.

About La Scala

La Scala, officially Teatro alla Scala, has been Milan's opera house since it opened on August 3, 1778. It was first called the Nuovo Regio Ducale Teatro alla Scala, and its name comes from Santa Maria della Scala, the church that once stood on the site. The first opera given there was Antonio Salieri's Europa riconosciuta.

A fire had destroyed the previous house, the Teatro Regio Ducale, on February 25, 1776, and ninety wealthy Milanese box holders asked Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este for a replacement. Count Firmian, governor of Austrian Lombardy, rejected the neoclassical architect Giuseppe Piermarini's first design, but Empress Maria Theresa accepted a second plan in 1776, and the building was finished in about two years by a team that included Pietro Marliani, Pietro Nosetti and the brothers Antonio and Giuseppe Fe. The stage ranks among the largest in Italy.

Bombing in 1943 severely damaged the house, which reopened on May 11, 1946, with a concert conducted by Arturo Toscanini. La Scala had a special relationship with Giuseppe Verdi, whose Otello and Falstaff had their premieres there. The house supports the La Scala Theatre Chorus, Ballet and Orchestra and the Filarmonica della Scala, and it runs the La Scala Theatre Academy, which offers professional training covering music, dance, stagecraft and stage management.

About this model

La Scala is one of more than 4,400 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.

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