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San Vincenzo in Prato review Rate it
Once an expanse of prati (fields), the area around this small church was used as a pagan, and subsequently Christian, necropolis. Benedictine monks occupied the adjacent monastery in the ninth century and remained there until 1520; it's uncertain whether the present church dates from the ninth or 11th century. French occupiers turned it into a storehouse and then barracks in 1798. Later it became a chemical factory, belching fumes that earned it the nickname Casa del Mago ('magician's house'). It was restored and reconsecrated in the 1880s.
San Vincenzo in Prato details
Area Milan
Transport Metro Sant'Agostino/bus 94/tram 2, 14 .
Telephone 02 837 3107
Open 7.45-noon, 3.30-7pm daily.
Admission free.
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