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What to visit in Milan: Churches%20/%20Religious%20buildings
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What to see in Milan, the second largest city of Italy? What to visit in Milan?
Milan is often considered a busy and active city, full of life, but not beautiful
and with only few artistic and historical treasures,
particularly in comparison to other Italian cities like Florence and Rome.
This page wants to prove that also in Milan it is possible to find many monuments
and buildings of great artistic and historical value.
Unfortunately, often these beauties, which could be tourist attractions of first class,
are very little known, hidden between modern buildings and
shopping streets. Or simply located in areas off the most important touristical routes.
Most tourists think that in Milan the only things which are worth a visit are
the Duomo, the Sforza Castle,
the Vittorio Emanuele Gallery and the Last Sypper by Leonardo da Vinci.
Often even many inhabitants of Milan know very little about the cultural heritage of Milan
and they happen to be passed
for forty years in front of churches and other historic buildings without knowing what treasures
of beauty they contain.
The list of art and history attractions in Milan on this page is now very long, although some items are still missing.
From the point of view of the photographic documentation, based only on until now unpublished photos,
it is probably already the most complete in internet.
The more recent descriptions are
rather detailed, while those inserted first are more superficial, but they are going to be brought in the future
to the same standard as the more recent ones.
Note: Most of the pictures in this section were obtained fusing two or three
differently exposed pictures using the algorythm contained in the page
HDR on line.
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In Milan there are many churches and unlike many other cities, there are churches of almost all historical periods and all styles.The same two most important churches of Milan, the Duomo, alias the Church of Santa Maria Nascente, and the Basilica of Sant Ambrogio include stylistic elements from various eras, reflecting the long history of the Lombard capital. You can therefore find churches with still Roman elements, like the Basilica of San Lorenzo Maggiore, the romanic basilicas, of which the Basilica of San Simpliciano is the purest example, churches in Gothic style, in its special Lombard version, like the Church of Santa Maria Incoronata, renessaince jewels, like the Portinari Chapel, churches in baroque style, from the more graceful one, like in the Church of Sant'Antonio Abate, to the the almost overwhelming one like in the Church of Sant Alessandro in Zebedia. Then there is the case of churches that recent interventions have led to curious mixtures of styles, and in which it is difficult to understand what is original and what is a recent change in imitation of the old styles. This is the case of the Basilicas of San Babila, di Sant'Eufemia and San Calimero.
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