Editing Lombardy (section)

===Contemporary era===
[[File:01 partigiani a milano1.jpg|thumb|[[Italian resistance movement|Italian partisans]] in Milan during the [[liberation of Italy]], April 1945]]
[[File:Milano, Centro Direzionale 01.jpg|thumb|Skyscrapers and large buildings in the 1960s, such as that of the [[Centro Direzionale di Milano]], iconographically represent the [[Italian economic miracle]].]]

The Alpine front of [[World War I]] crossed the eastern Lombardy Alpine side, and in the post-war period Milan was the centre of the [[Fasci Italiani di Combattimento|Italian Fasces of Combat]]. Milan then became the [[Gold Medal of Military Valor]] for the [[Italian resistance movement]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://fondazionefeltrinelli.it/scopri/una-medaglia-una-lapide-e-quattro-atti-di-eroismo-per-la-memoria-pubblica-di-milano/|title=Una medaglia, una lapide e quattro atti di eroismo per la memoria pubblica di Milano|access-date=1 February 2024|language=it}}</ref> during the [[Italian Civil War]] after its liberation from fascism during the [[World War II]], while the partisan resistance spread across the valleys and provinces.

Following the historical borders, in 1948 the administrative region of Lombardy was prefigured as part of the newly formed [[Italian Republic]]. In the years of the [[Italian economic miracle]], Milan was one of the poles of the "industrial triangle" of northern Italy formed by the cities of [[Turin]]-[[Milan]]-[[Genoa]]. The [[Years of Lead (Italy)|Years of Lead]] had wide relevance in Lombardy, with the [[Piazza Fontana bombing]] in Milan in 1969 and the [[Piazza della Loggia bombing]] in [[Brescia]] in 1974.

In the 1980s, Milan became a symbol of the country's economic growth, and a symbol of the economic-financial rampantism of the so-called ''"Milano da bere"'', literally "Milan to be drunk",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lastampa.it/redazione/cmsSezioni/cultura/200804articoli/31497girata.asp |title=L'uomo che inventò la Milano da bere |publisher=Lastampa.It |date=4 January 2008 |access-date=25 March 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090914065500/http://www.lastampa.it/redazione/cmsSezioni/cultura/200804articoli/31497girata.asp |archive-date=14 September 2009|language=it}}</ref> while the Milanese socialist group of [[Bettino Craxi]] was in the national government. The city of Milan, in the early 1990s, was the origin of the series of scandals known as ''Tangentopoli'' which emerged from the judicial investigations of the Milanese prosecutor's office known as [[Mani pulite]], which then spread to the rest of the country.

In early 2020, Lombardy was severely affected by the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], in which [[COVID-19 pandemic in Italy|Italy was one of the worst-affected countries]] in Europe. Several towns were quarantined from 22 February after community transmission was documented in Lombardy and [[Veneto]] the previous day. The entirety of Lombardy was placed under lockdown on 8 March,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/08/italy-announces-quarantine-affecting-quarter-of-population.html|title=Italy announces quarantine affecting quarter of population|date=8 March 2020|website=CNBC}}</ref> followed by all of Italy the following day,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/10/business/italy-lockdown-recession/index.html|title=Italy just locked down the world's 8th biggest economy. A deep recession looms|first=Hanna |last=Ziady|publisher=CNN|date=10 March 2020|access-date=8 February 2024}}</ref> making Italy the first country to implement a nationwide lockdown in response to the epidemic, which the [[World Health Organization]] (WHO) declared a [[pandemic]] on 11 March. The lockdown was extended twice, and the region toughened restrictions on 22 March, banning outdoor exercise and the use of vending machines,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51991972|title=Italy's worst-hit region introduces stricter measures|publisher=BBC News|date=22 March 2020|access-date=8 February 2024}}</ref> but from the beginning of May, following a reported decrease in the number of active cases, restrictions were gradually relaxed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/03/anger-as-italy-slowly-emerges-from-long-covid-19-lockdown|title=Anger as Italy slowly emerges from long Covid-19 lockdown &#124; Italy |website=The Guardian|access-date=6 February 2024 }}</ref>