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The nearby monastery is the e Santa Maria
home of the Società Umanitaria, della Passione
founded in 1893 to educate
and aid the poor. It has a library Via Conservatorio 14. Map 8 E–F1.
devoted to labour problems. Tel 02-76 02 13 70. v 12, 23, 27.
@ 54, 61, 77, 94. Open 7:45am–
The only remaining part of the
monastery is the refectory, noon, 3:30–6:15pm Mon–Fri;
9am–12:30pm, 3:30–6:30pm Sat &
with a Crucifixion by Marco Sun. 5 8:15am, 5:30pm Mon–Fri;
d’Oggiono. Returning to Corso 5:30pm pre-hols; 10am, 11:15am,
di Porta Vittoria, you come to 5:30pm hols.
Piazza Cinque Giornate, with a
View of the arcade in the Rotonda di monument by Giuseppe Grandi The second largest church in
Via Besana (1895) commemora ting the Milan, after the Duomo, was
anti-Austrian insurrec tion of built under the patronage of
q Rotonda 1848 (see p26). The female the prelate Daniele Birago, who
di Via Besana figures symbolize the Five had donated the land to the
Days, whose dead are buried Lateran Canons. Work began in
Via San Barnaba, corner of Via in the crypt below. 1486 to a design by Giovanni
Besana. Map 8 F2. Tel 02-43 98 04 02. Battagio. Originally the church
v 9. @ 77, 84. Open for exhibitions had a Greek cross plan but it
and summer cultural events only. w Conservatorio was lengthened with a nave
Museo dei Bambini: Open di Musica
9:30am–6pm Tue–Fri, 10am–7pm and six semi-circular chapels on
Sat, Sun & hols. & ∑ muba.it Giuseppe Verdi each side in 1573 by Martino
Bassi. The façade of the church
The Rotonda was the cemetery Via Conservatorio 12. Map 8 E1. – and the nearby convent, now
of the nearby Ca’ Granda Hospital, Tel 02-762 11 01. v 12, 23, 27. the home of the Conservatory –
@ 54, 61, 77. Open for concerts only.
designed in 1695 by Francesco was added in 1692 by Giuseppe
Raffagno on present-day Viale Library: Tel 02-762 110 219. Open Rusnati, who kept it low so that
8am–8pm Mon–Fri, 8am–2pm Sat.
Regina Margherita. When it was visitors could appreciate the
closed in 1783, viceroy Eugène Milan’s Conservatory was majestic octagonal covering
de Beauharnais tried to change it founded by viceroy Eugène de of the dome designed by
into the Pantheon of the Regno Beauharnais in 1808. Important Cristoforo Lombardo (1530).
Italico (1809), but the project musicians and composers have To enhance this view and link
fell through and the round brick studied here – though, despite the church with the Naviglio,
building first housed patients the institution’s name, the young Abbot Gadio had the Via della
with infectious diseases and then, Verdi was refused admission. Passione laid out in front of the
up to 1940, was the hospital There is a chamber music hall entrance in 1540. The interior,
laundry. It is now used for and a large auditorium for with a frescoed barrel vault, is
temporary exhibitions and as symphonic music. The library very atmospheric. Fourteen
an outdoor cinema in summer. boasts over 35,000 books and early 17th-century portraits
The Rotonda is also home 460,000 pieces of written music of the saints of the Lateran
to the Museo dei Bambini, an and scores, including works by Order, attributed to Daniele
eductional museum for kids Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini Crespi and his school, are on
that holds specially concep- and Verdi. A small museum the piers. In the right-hand
tualised laboratory activities showcases precious stringed chapels, two works worth
and several interactive exhibits. instruments. seeing are Christ at the Pillar
In the middle is the decon-
secrated San Michele ai Nuovi
Sepolcri, built in 1713. It has a
Greek cross plan with a central
altar, visible from all sides.
The small skulls sculpted on
the capitals are a reminder of the
original function of this complex.
On Via San Barnaba is Santa
Maria della Pace, designed by
Pietro Antonio Solari in 1466, the
property of the Order of Knights
of the Holy Sepulchre. In 1805
the church was suppressed and
the paintings removed (some
are now in the Brera), but some
17th-century frescoes by Tanzio
da Varallo remain. The Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory, housed in a former monastery

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