San Carlo is a

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-style, former

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church in

Modena Modena (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language#Dialects, Modenese, Mòdna ; ett, Mutna; la, Mutina) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern I ...

, Italy. It has been deconsecrated and is used as an auditorium.

History

Construction of the present church began in 1664 using designs of

Bartolomeo Avanzini Bartolomeo Avanzini (1608–1658) was an Italian architect of the Baroque period, active mainly in Modena, Sassuolo Sassuolo (; egl, label= Modenese, Sasól ) is an Italian town, ''comune'', and industrial centre of the Province of Modena i ...

. The apse has a large painting '' San Carlo Borromeo among the people of Milan afflicted by the plague of 1576'' by Marcantonio Franceschini.Turismo of the Comune of Modena

References

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