Built at the end of the fourth century, San Lorenzo is one of the oldest centrally planned churches, and may have been the chapel of the imperial Roman palace. Fires all but...

San Marco was built in 1254 by the Augustinian Lanfranco Settala on the site of an earlier church that the Milanese had dedicated to Venice's patron, St Mark. This gesture was...

This church was commissioned by Florentine banker Pigello Portinari and built between 1447 and 1475 to a design by Pietro Antonio and Guiniforte Solari. In 1862, frescoes were...

The forum of Roman Mediolanum occupied the area between piazza San Sepolcro and piazza Pio XI. It was here that a church dedicated to the Holy Trinity was built in 1030, only...

One of the oldest churches in the city, San Simpliciano was founded in the fourth century by St Ambrose (and dedicated to his successor), and finished in 401. The original...

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...

The church and former monastery of San Vittore al Corpo grew up around the mausoleum of Emperor Valentinian II, who died in 392; parts of this ancient structure are now beneath...

The charismatic Bishop Ambrose (Ambrogio) - who defended orthodox Christianity against Arianism and later became Milan's patron saint - had this Basilica Martyrum built between...

Built in 1552 to a design by Domenico Giunti, and intended to take the place of a Franciscan church the Spanish had destroyed to build defences, Sant'Angelo is a highly...

Sant'Eustorgio, when he was still but a bishop, had this church built in the fourth century to house the relics of the Three Kings. The specific site was chosen when animals...

This church is essentially a modern structure in the neo-Renaissance style, with various nondescript additions. The presbytery, however, rests on a much older sanctuary, open...

Two little chapels once stood on this site where, according to legend, St Ambrose was led by a vision to the bodies of martyrs Nazaro and Celso. The chapel of San Nazaro fell...

Little remains of the original Romanesque church built in 1250 and rebuilt in 1400; the current façade (1880) is the work of Carlo Maciachini. And yet the structure contains...

Construction of the church of Santa Maria della Passione began in 1486, to a design by Giovanni Battagio. It was originally a Greek-cross church, but one arm was lengthened to...