San Cristoforo sul Naviglio, or San Cristoforo for short, is a district ("
quartiere") of
Milan
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,
Italy
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, part of the
Zone 6 administrative division of the city. It is named after its most important monument, the
Romanesque-
Gothic
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*Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
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church of
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 ...
. The district is located along the
Naviglio Grande
The Naviglio Grande is a canal in Lombardy, northern Italy, connecting the Ticino river near Tornavento ( south of Sesto Calende) to the Porta Ticinese dock, also known as the ''Darsena'', in Milan. It drops over . It varies in width from from ...
canal, south of
Giambellino-Lorenteggio.
External links
Districts of Milan
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