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7 Largo Augusto
and Via Durini
Map 8 D1, E1. q 1, 3 Duomo.
v 12, 15, 23, 27. @ 54, 60, 61, 73,
77, 84, 94.
The Verziere Column,
commissioned by Carlo
Borromeo to celebrate the end
of the 1576 plague, has stood
in Largo Augusto since 1580.
It is one of the few votive
columns to survive the late
The fish pond in the Giardino della Guastalla, near Via Sforza 18th century. Many were lost
after the suppression of the
5 Giardino 6 Santo Stefano monastic orders that owned
della Guastalla Maggiore and them, or sacrificed to make
Via Francesco Sforza, Via S Barnaba, San Bernardino room for new buildings. This
square marks the beginning of
Via Guastalla. Map 8 D2. v 12, 23, 27. alle Ossa Via Durini, which is dominated
@ 60, 73, 77, 84, 94. Open daily. by the concave façade of Santa
Mar: 7am–8pm; Apr & Oct: 7am–9pm; Piazza Santo Stefano. Map 8 D1.
May–Sep: 7am–10pm; Nov–Feb: q 1, 3 Duomo. v 12, 23, 27. @ 54, Maria della Sanità (1708). No. 20
7am–7pm. 60, 73, 77. Archivio Storico Diocesano: is Casa Toscanini, the great con-
Via San Calimero 13. Map 8 D2. ductor’s house, and No. 24 is
This garden – Milan’s oldest – Tel 02-58 49 98 01. Open 9:15am– Palazzo Durini, built in 1648 by
was laid out in 1555 by 12:15pm Mon–Fri. Closed Aug. San Francesco Maria Richini and
Countess Ludovica Torelli Bernar dino alle Ossa:. Open 8am– now the head quarters for Inter
della Guastalla, next to the noon, 1:30–6pm Mon–Fri; 9:30am– Milan. On nearby Corso Euro pa
college of the same name 12:30pm Sat & Sun. 5 8:30am is 16th-century Palazzo Litta
for the daughters of Mon–Sat (in Italian Fri), 11am Sun Modignani, where a Roman
impoverished aristocrats. (Korean). ^ 7 mosaic was found.
In the early 1600s
it was transformed Santo Stefano dates 8 Palazzo
into an Italian-style back to the 5th Sormani Andreani
garden, and a century. It was
goldfish pond on two rebuilt in 1075 after Corso di Porta Vittoria 6. Map 8 E1.
communicating terraces being destroyed by Tel 02-88 46 33 97. v 12, 23, 27.
was added. There is also a fire and was rebuilt @ 54, 60, 73, 77, 84, 94. Open 9am–
a 17th-century shrine in its present form 7:30pm Mon–Sat. Closed public
representing Mary in 1584 by Giuseppe hols, Aug.
Magdalen attended Meda. The Baroque
by angels and a Neo- bell tower was built in The palazzo, constructed in
Classical temple 1643–74 by Carlo Buzzi: the 18th century, was enlarged
by Luigi Cagnola. the pilaster at the base in 1736 by Francesco Croce,
In 1939 the garden is all that remains of who made it into one of
was separated the quadriporticus the most lavish residences
from the adjacent Statue on the façade of San that once faced the
Sormani park and Bernardino alle Ossa medieval basilica.
opened to the public. The church was
At the Via Guastalla exit (No. 19) used as the Diocesan Archive,
you can visit the Synagogue, which has now moved. Next
designed by Luca Beltrami door are San Bernardino alle
(1890–92) and, at the corner Ossa, originally medieval but
of Via San Barnaba, the church since rebuilt many times, and
of Santi Barnaba e Paolo, which the ossuary chapel (with a
is part of the nearby Chierici concave façade) built in 1210
Regolari di San Paolo college. It and altered in 1695. The latter
is a prototype of 16th-century is small and covered with
Lombard churches, founded human bones and skulls.
in 1558 and then modified The dim light and dark walls
by Galeazzo Alessi. Inside are contrast with the bright colours
paintings by Aurelio Luini, of the fresco on the vault by
son of Bernardino, Camillo Sebastiano Ricci (1695): The Façade of Palazzo Sormani, the Municipal
Procaccini and Moncalvo. Triumph of Souls among Angels. Library since 1956

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