The Alfa Romeo Portello Plant in Milan, Italy was the first factory of Alfa Romeo

Alfa Romeo

Alfa Romeo Automobiles S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of cars. Founded as A.L.F.A. on June 24, 1910, in Milan, the company has been involved in car racing since 1911, and has a reputation for building expensive sports cars...

, and the main factory between 1908 and the 1960s. The factory was closed in 1986, buth all major production was transferred already 20 years earlier to the Alfa Romeo Arese Plant

Alfa Romeo Arese Plant

The Alfa Romeo Arese Plant was a plant area where Alfa Romeo had its head office for more than two decades prior to 1986 was known to be. After Fiat Group purchased Alfa Romeo in 1986, Arese became one of the assembly plants of Fiat Group. The factory is in the Province of Milan in the Italian...

. The history of the factory is mainly linked to the automobile manufacturing, but there were also manufactured other things in the same area.

History

The first industrial plant was the work of the French Darracq

Darracq

Automobiles Darracq S.A. was a French motor vehicle manufacturing company founded in 1896 by Alexandre Darracq.Using part of the substantial profit he had made from selling his Gladiator bicycle factory, Alexandre Darracq began operating from a plant in the Parisian suburb of Suresnes...

, who wanted to open a branch in Italy and chose a site for that purpose directly adjacent to areas which had hosted the 1906 International Exhibition in Milan. The location was on Via Gattamelata in Milan, on the way to Gallarate, in the then extreme north-western outskirts of the city.

The area was chosen by other car brands to establish their headquarters or branch, including Isotta Fraschini, and then the Citroën

Citroën

Citroën is a major French automobile manufacturer, part of the PSA Peugeot Citroën group.Founded in 1919 by French industrialist André-Gustave Citroën , Citroën was the first mass-production car company outside the USA and pioneered the modern concept of creating a sales and services network that...

, the FIAT

Fiat

FIAT, an acronym for Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino , is an Italian automobile manufacturer, engine manufacturer, financial, and industrial group based in Turin in the Italian region of Piedmont. Fiat was founded in 1899 by a group of investors including Giovanni Agnelli...

, the Carrozzeria Touring

Carrozzeria Touring

Carrozzeria Touring is an automobile coachbuilder established on March 25, 1926 in Milan, Italy by Felice Bianchi Anderloni and Gaetano Ponzoni...

, the Zagato

Zagato

Zagato is a design consultancy and engineering services company situated just outside Milan, Italy.The company's premises occupy an area of , of which are covered....

 and Cesare Sala

Cesare Sala

Carrozzeria Italiana Cesare Sala was a Milan-based coachbuilder of extreme opulence. They provided carriages for the Vienna court and bodies for Isotta-Fraschini automobiles....

 Bodyworks, the latter almost forced to choose that area for the fact that their activities were closely linked to those of Alfa.

List of cars produced

Image	Brand	Model	Production start/end	Nr. produced	Note
	Darracq	8/10 HP and 14/16 HP	1906/1909		In 1909 the Darracq was liquidated and the plant was purchased by a group of Milanese businessmen.
	A.L.F.A.	24 HP A.L.F.A 24 HP The A.L.F.A 24 HP came on the market in 1910. This was the first automobile created by A.L.F.A . Giuseppe Merosi was the man behind engineering. The car was used for the first time in car racing in the 1911 Targa Florio. This was first commercial success for the company and the timeline of the HP...	1910/1913		The platform of the 24HP was the basis for a family of cars built before 1921 as the 12HP, 15HP, 40-60 HP, 15-20 HP and 20-30 HP.
	A.L.F.A.	12 HP A.L.F.A 24 HP The A.L.F.A 24 HP came on the market in 1910. This was the first automobile created by A.L.F.A . Giuseppe Merosi was the man behind engineering. The car was used for the first time in car racing in the 1911 Targa Florio. This was first commercial success for the company and the timeline of the HP...	1910/1911
	A.L.F.A.	15 HP A.L.F.A 24 HP The A.L.F.A 24 HP came on the market in 1910. This was the first automobile created by A.L.F.A . Giuseppe Merosi was the man behind engineering. The car was used for the first time in car racing in the 1911 Targa Florio. This was first commercial success for the company and the timeline of the HP...	1911/1913
	A.L.F.A.	40-60 HP A.L.F.A 40/60 HP The A.L.F.A 40/60 HP was a race and road car made by Italian car manufacturer A.L.F.A . This model was made between 1913 and 1922 and was designed by Giuseppe Merosi, just like all other Alfas at that time. The 40/60 HP has a 6082 cc straight-4 engine with overhead valves, which produced and its...	1913/1914
	A.L.F.A.	15-20 HP A.L.F.A 24 HP The A.L.F.A 24 HP came on the market in 1910. This was the first automobile created by A.L.F.A . Giuseppe Merosi was the man behind engineering. The car was used for the first time in car racing in the 1911 Targa Florio. This was first commercial success for the company and the timeline of the HP...	1913/1914
	A.L.F.A. - Alfa Romeo	20-30 HP Alfa Romeo 20/30 HP A.L.F.A. or later Alfa Romeo has made three cars named as 20/30 HP, first one 1910 4-cylinder 4-6-seater tourer, improved version 20/30 HP E in 1914 and 1921 the 20/30 HP ES Sport, a 4-seater sportscar.-The Alfa 20-30 HP:...	1914/1921	124	Produced until 1918 as A.L.F.A.
	Alfa Romeo	G1 Alfa Romeo G1 The Alfa Romeo G1 was the first all-new design from Alfa Romeo after the end of the A.L.F.A. brand. Giuseppe Merosi, while into a legal action against Nicola Romeo about the takeover conditions, designed at home the drawings for both the update of the prewar 24HP into the revised 20/30ES and the...	1921/1923
	Alfa Romeo	RL Alfa Romeo RL The Alfa Romeo RL was produced between 1922-1927. It was Alfa's first sport model after World War I. The car was designed in 1921 by Giuseppe Merosi. It had a straight-6 engine with overhead valves...	1922/1927
	Alfa Romeo	RM Alfa Romeo RM Alfa Romeo RM was produced between 1923–1925, it was based on RL model. Car was introduced first time in 1923 Paris Motor Show and total production was around 500 cars. RM had 2.0 L straight-4 engine, which produced between to . As most of Alfa Romeo cars this was also used in racing purpose.Three...	1923/1925	circa 500
	Alfa Romeo	6C Alfa Romeo 6C The Alfa Romeo 6C name was used on road, race and sports cars made between 1925–1954 by Alfa Romeo. 6C refers to a straight 6 engine. Bodies for these cars were made by coachbuilders such as James Young, Zagato, Touring, Castagna, and Pininfarina...	1925/1954
	Alfa Romeo	8C Alfa Romeo 8C -1935 Monoposto 8C 35 Type C:Eight 3.8 litre versions, sharing no castings with the earlier blocks, were individually built for racing in five months, most being used in the Alfa Romeo Monoposto 8C 35 Type C, as raced by Scuderia Ferrari. The 3.8 produced at 5500 rpm, and had from...	1931/1939
	Alfa Romeo	1900 Alfa Romeo 1900 The Alfa Romeo 1900 is a sports sedan designed by Orazio Satta for the Alfa Romeo company in 1950. It was Alfa Romeo's first car built entirely on a production line and was also Alfa's first production car without separate chassis and first Alfa offered with left-hand drive...	1950/1959	17,243	The 1900 was assembled under license in Belgium by "Empire" from 1953 to 1954 and in Argentina by "Industrias Kaiser Argentina" from 1960 to 1962.
	Alfa Romeo	Matta Alfa Romeo Matta - External links :**...	1951/1955	2,161
	Alfa Romeo	Alfa Romeo Giulietta Alfa Romeo Giulietta The Alfa Romeo Giulietta was a subcompact automobile manufactured by the Italian car maker Alfa Romeo from 1954 to 1965. The Giulietta was introduced at the Turin Motor Show in 1954 and almost 132,000 were built in the Portello factory in Milan.The first Giulietta model was a coupé, the Giulietta...	1955/1963	circa 132,000	The Spider and coupe versions were built at the Pininfarina plant respectively San Giorgio Canavese (Turin) and Grugliasco (Torino) also was also assembled in South Africa in East London from 1960 to 1963.
	Alfa Romeo 2000	2000 Alfa Romeo 2000 Alfa Romeo 2000 is a car produced by the Italian automobile manufacturing company Alfa Romeo as a successor to the 1900.First shown in 1957 on the Turin autosalon, the car was produced in two models, the Berlina with and the Spider with since 1958. In 1960, the Sprint was added...	1958/1961	6,961	The 2000 was built in Brazil until 1969 from the Fabrica Nacional de Motores, Brazilian subsidiary of Alfa Romeo, with the name of FNM 2000
	Alfa Romeo (Renault)	Dauphine Renault Dauphine Renault Dauphine is a rear-engined economy car manufactured by Renault in one body style — a three-box, four-door sedan — as the successor to the Renault 4CV, with over two million examples marketed worldwide during its production from 1956-1967....	1959/1963		The Alfa Romeo produced under license this car on behalf of Renault. The differences from the French model was limited to the electrical system 12V (Magneti-Marelli) and the presence of the trademark "Alfa Romeo" on the trunk.
	Alfa Romeo	2600 Alfa Romeo 2600 The Alfa Romeo 2600 was Alfa Romeo´s six-cylinder flagship produced from 1961 to 1968. It was the successor to the Alfa Romeo 2000. It has become historically significant as the last Alfa Romeo to have been fitted with an inline six-cylinder engine having twin overhead camshafts...	1961/1968	11,453	The 2600 was also assembled in South Africa in East London from 1963 to 1968.
	Alfa Romeo	Giulia Alfa Romeo Giulia The Alfa Romeo Giulia is an Alfa Romeo automobile. Alfa was one of the first manufacturers to put a powerful engine in a light-weight car for mainstream production. The Giulia weighed about . The car was equipped with a light alloy twin overhead camshaft four-cylinder engine, similar to that of...	1962/1965		In 1965 production was transferred to the new Alfa Romeo Arese Plant Alfa Romeo Arese Plant The Alfa Romeo Arese Plant was a plant area where Alfa Romeo had its head office for more than two decades prior to 1986 was known to be. After Fiat Group purchased Alfa Romeo in 1986, Arese became one of the assembly plants of Fiat Group. The factory is in the Province of Milan in the Italian... in Milan.