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List Of Buildings In Milan
This is a list of buildings in Milan. Churches Paleochristian, Romanesque * Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio * Basilica of San Calimero * Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio * Basilica of San Lorenzo * Basilica of San Nazaro in Brolo * Basilica of San Simpliciano * Basilica of S.Tecla (ruins) * Basilica of S.Vincenzo in Prato * Church of San Babila * Church of San Bernardino alle Monache * Church of San Faustino e Giovita * Church of San Giovanni in Conca (ruins) * Church of San Martino in Lambrate * Church of San Pietro dei Pellegrini * Church of San Sepolcro * Church of San Siro alla Vepra * Church of Santa Maria la Rossa * Church of Santa Maria della Fontana * Church of Santi Re Magi Gothic * Milan Cathedral, the Duomo * Abbey of Chiaravalle * Abbey of Mirasole * Abbey of Viboldone * Basilica of Sant'Eufemia * Church of San Cristoforo sul Naviglio * Church of San Gottardo in Corte * Church of San Marco * Church of Santa Maria Bianca della Misericordia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city has 3.26 million inhabitants. Its continuously built-up urban area (whose outer suburbs extend well beyond the boundaries of the administrative metropolitan city and even stretch into the nearby country of Switzerland) is the fourth largest in the EU with 5.27 million inhabitants. According to national sources, the population within the wider Milan metropolitan area (also known as Greater Milan), is estimated between 8.2 million and 12.5 million making it by far the largest metropolitan area in Italy and one of the largest in the EU.* * * * Milan is considered a leading alpha global city, with strengths in the fields of art, chemicals, commerce, design, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiesa Di Santa Maria La Rossa
Santa Maria la Rossa is an ancient church in Milan, Italy. Excavations at the site, suggest a structure was present at the site since the early Roman Imperial era. Evidence shows that reconstructions occurred in the first centuries of the common era. However the first historical references to a basilica church of ''Santa Maria ad Fonticulum'' or ''Santa Maria di Fonteggio'', at this site date to the 10th century. In the 12th century a monastery of Benedictine nuns was attached. A major reconstruction of the church took place in the 14th century. Recent reconstructions have eliminated all but ancient decorations, the church is now occupied by a Franciscan order. Maria Maria may refer to: People * Mary, mother of Jesus * Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages Place names Extraterrestrial *170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877 *Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, da ... 10th-century establishments in Italy {{Italy-church-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Maria Della Pace, Milan
The Chiesa di Santa Maria della Pace is a church in Milan, Italy. It was built in 1497. Roman Catholic churches completed in 1497 Maria Maria may refer to: People * Mary, mother of Jesus * Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages Place names Extraterrestrial *170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877 *Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, da ... Tourist attractions in Milan 15th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy {{Italy-church-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Maria Del Carmine, Milan
Santa Maria del Carmine is a church in Milan, Italy. It was built in 1446. History In 1268, the Carmelites obtained a site near the Castello Sforzesco where, starting from the 14th century, they built a convent with an annexed church. The latter was, however, destroyed in a fire in 1330. The rebuilt church fell into disuse before the end of the century, after the friars moved to another convent. The new church was built from 1400, under the design of friar Bernardo da Venezia. Works were completed in 1446. The vault crumbled down three years after completion and a restoration was necessary. In the mid-15th century, the church became a favourite destination for aristocratic burials, as testified by the numerous noble tombs in the chapels and niches. In the 17th century, the presbytery was remade in the Baroque architecture, Baroque style. The current façade was designed by Carlo Maciachini and completed in 1880. Description The interior has a nave and two aisles. They are cove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of Santa Maria Bianca Della Misericordia
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San Marco, Milan
San Marco is a church in Milan, northern Italy. History According to tradition, the church was dedicated to St. Mark, patron of Venice, after the help given by that city in the war against Frederick Barbarossa in the 12th century. However, the first mention of the church dates from 1254 when the Augustinians built a Gothic style edifice with a nave and two aisles re-using pre-existing constructions. The area of present Via San Marco contained a basin (artificial lake) called ''Laghetto di San Marco'' which connected to various canals (navigli); the basin was filled in the 1930s, and the area now sports a frequent outdoor market. The structure was heavily modified in the Baroque style during the 17th century, when it became the largest church in the city after the Duomo di Milano. In early 1770, the young Mozart resided in the monastery of San Marco for three months and, on May 22, 1874, the first anniversary of the death of the Milanese poet and novelist Alessandro Manzoni was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Gottardo, Milan
San Gottardo in Corte or San Gottardo a Palazzo is a church in Milan, northern Italy. It was built as Ducal Chapel by Azzone Visconti in 1330, and finished in 1336, as indicated by an inscription on the walls. It was originally dedicated to the Blessed Virgin but Azzone, who had gout, later changed the dedication to St. Gotthard of Hildesheim, patron of those with gout. The design was by Francesco Pecorari from Cremona. The octagonal bell tower has the first example of public clock (before, sun-dials were used). The interior was restored in the Neoclassicist era by Giocondo Albertolli. Of the original church, part of the Giottesque ''Crucifixion'', a canvas with ''St. Charles Borromeo'' by Giovan Battista Crespi Giovanni Battista Crespi (23 December 1573 – 23 October 1632), called Il Cerano, was an Italian painter, sculptor, and architect. Biography He was born in Romagnano Sesia, the son of a painter, Raffaele Crespi, and moved to Cerano with his fa ... and the tomb of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Cristoforo Sul Naviglio
San Cristoforo sul Naviglio is a church in Milan, northern Italy. History The complex is composed of two churches. The left one is the most ancient, which is known to be a Romanesque reconstruction of a far more ancient edifice (probably in turn located on the site of a Roman templeThis hypothesis is supported by the fact that the edifices entitled to St. Cristopher, patron of the pilgrims, often replaced those of Hercules, who was also a giant.). The Romanesque edifice was again rebuilt in the 13th century, when the Naviglio Grande was excavated. In the mid-14th century it received the Gothic portal and rose window. The Gothic church was flanked by a hospital, built around 1364. The more recent church, which currently is united to the other and gives the appearance of a single edifice, was constructed along the naviglio (navigational canal) bank in the 15th century, and then called Ducal Chapel. It was commissioned by Duke Gian Galeazzo Visconti in order to provide a holy e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basilica Of Sant'Eufemia, Milan
Basilica di Sant'Eufemia is a church in Milan, Italy. It was established in 472. History The church was built in 472 by Senator (bishop of Milan), Bishop Senatore to house the relics of the martyr Euphemia. The bishop is buried in the church. Sant'Eufemia was subsequently the subject of various alterations funded by generous patrons. The church was then rebuilt in the 15th century. Canon Pietro Casola describes a Rogation days, rogation day procession that left from the Santa Tecla, Milan, Cathedral of Santa Tecla to Sant'Eufemia and other churches before returning to the cathedral. The church underwent renovation in 1870 by architect Enrico Terzaghi, who designed a neo-romanesque facade of terracotta and Vicenza stone. The rose window above the entrance is surrounded by bas-reliefs with symbols of the four evangelists. The interior is neo-Gothic; both the walls and vaults are richly decorated with frescoes. The ''Madonna and Child'' is by Marco d'Oggiono. Simone Peterzano's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbey Of Viboldone
The Abbey of Viboldone is an abbey in Viboldone, a ''frazione'' of San Giuliano Milanese, in the province of Milan, northern Italy. History The abbey was founded in 1176 and completed in 1348 by the Humiliati, an order of monks, nuns and lay people who worked in the abbey producing wool cloths and cultivated the nearby fields with innovative techniques. After the suppression of the Humiliati by Pope Pius V (1571), the abbey went to the Olivetan Benedictines, who were forced to leave the abbey in 1773, when Lombardy fell in Austrian hands. After several years of abandonment, the abbey is currently home to the Community of Madre Margherita Marchi (Benedictine nuns) since 1941. Architecture The façade (finished in 1348) is hut-shaped, with mullioned windows and visible brickwork with white stone decorations, and divided into three sectors by two semi-columns. The entrance portal is in white marble, and is surmounted by a lunette with marble sculptures of the "Madonna with Child ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbey Of Mirasole
Mirasole Abbey ( it, Abbazia di Mirasole) is a monastery in the ''comune'' of Opera, Lombardy, Opera near Milan, Lombardy, Northern Italy. The monastery was initially founded by the Humiliati in the 13th century. The buildings have had diverse uses over the centuries. Since 2013, houses a community of the Premonstratensians. History The abbey was founded as a monastery of the Humiliati in the first half of the 13th century. Its economy was based on the working of wool and the production of woollen cloth. The Humiliati were suppressed in 1571, and the abbey became the property of the Collegio Elvetico in Milan, which was taken over for the use of the Austrian administration in 1786. The building is now the Palazzo del Senato (Milan), Palazzo del Senato); its spiritual life was administered by the Olivetans. In 1797, the former abbey was given to the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan. In 2013 a community of Premonstratensian Canon (priest), canons moved into the former abbey premises as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbey Of Chiaravalle
The Abbey of Santa Maria di Rovegnano (Latin: ''Sanctæ Mariæ Clarævallis Mediolanensis'') is a Cistercian monastic complex in the ''comune'' of Milan, Lombardy, northern Italy. The '' borgo'' that has developed round the abbey was once an independent commune called Chiaravalle Milanese, now included in Milan and referred to as the Chiaravalle district. The abbey was founded on 22 January 1135 as a daughterhouse of Clairvaux; it is one of the first examples of Gothic architecture in Italy, although maintaining some late Romanesque influences. History In October 1134 Cistercian monks from Morimond, near Dijon established themselves at Coronate, near Pieve di Abbiategrasso southwest of Milan, and founded the new Morimondo Abbey, whence the location was given, in 1171, the name of Morimondo. At the start of 1135 another group of Cistercians, coming from Clairvaux Abbey and headed by its first abbot and founder, Bernard of Clairvaux, reached Milan as guests of the Benedict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
