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w Sant’Angelo which is a kind of open-air
museum of art from the late
Piazza Sant’Angelo 2. Map 4 D3.
Tel 02-63 24 81. @ 43, 94. Open 19th century to the present,
6:30am–8pm daily. 5 7, 8, 10am begins at the large square
& 7pm Mon–Sat; 10, 11am, 12:15 & inside, which contains the
7pm hols. tombs of important Milanese
figures. Around the square are
Built in 1552 by Domenico monumental shrines and the
Giunti to replace the older Civico Mausoleo Palanti, an
Franciscan church outside the enormous mausoleum with
Porta Nuova, which had been a crypt, used as an air-raid
demolished to make room shelter in 1943. Among its
for the Spanish ramparts, tombs are those of comic
Sant’Angelo is an important actor Walter Chiari and
example of 16th-century The Cimitero Monumentale, with tombs Hermann Einstein, Albert’s
Milanese architecture. The and shrines produced by famous sculptors father. On the terraces, to
nave is separated from the the left are the Elisi (sculpted
presby tery by a triumphal r Cimitero by Francesco Penna, 1916)
arch with the Assumption of Monumentale and Morgagni tombs, and
Mary by Legnanino (17th an epigraph by Benito
century). There are many 16th- Piazzale Cimitero Monumentale. Mussolini commemorating
and 17th-century paintings in Map 3 A1. Tel 02-88 46 56 00. a disastrous aeroplane crash.
the chapels. The first one on the q 5 Monumentale. v 2, 4, 12, 14. In the central avenue are
right has canvases by Antonio @ 37. Open 8am–6pm Tue–Sun two tombs designed and
(to 1pm hols; last entry 5:30pm).
Campi (1584) and a copy of the Free map of the cemetery available sculpted by Enrico Butti: that
Martyrdom of St Catherine of at the entrance. of Isabella Casati, Young Woman
Alexandria by Gaudenzio Ferrari Enraptured by a Dream, a typical
(the origi nal is in the Brera); Extending over an area of Lombard realist work (1890),
the second has Moraz zone’s 250,000 sq m (300,000 sq yds), and the Besenzanica shrine
St Charles in Glory. the Cimitero Monumentale with Work (1912). On the right,
was begun by Carlo Maciachini is the monumental Toscanini
in 1866. The eclectic taste of tomb (Bistolfi, 1909–11), built
e Santa Maria the time dictated the use of for the conductor’s son.
Incoronata various styles for the cemetery, Among other monumental
from mock-Lombard tombs for major figures in
Corso Garibaldi 116. Map 3 C2. Romanesque to Neo-Gothic, Milanese life are those of
Tel 02-65 48 55. q 2 Garibaldi. with touches of Tuscan thrown Carlo Erba, Bocconi, Campari
@ 43, 70, 94. Open 7:15am–1:30pm, in. The linchpin of the structure and Falck. Many famous
4–7pm Mon–Fri, 8am–12.30pm, is the Famedio (Famae Aedes), sculptors made pieces for
4–7:30pm Sat–Sun. 5 7:30 & 9:30am, or House of Fame, a sort of this place: Leonardo Bistolfi,
6:30pm Mon–Fri, 9:30am, 6:30pm pantheon of illustrious Giacomo Manzù, Odoardo
Sat; 8:30, 10 & 11:30am, 6:30pm Tabacchi, Adolfo Wildt and
public hols. Milanese and non-
Milanese buried here. Lucio Fontana. The two
This church consists of two Author Alessandro enclosures beside the Famedio
buildings designed by Manzoni, Luca are for Jews and non-Catholics,
Guiniforte Solari, which Beltrami, the with the remains of sculptor
were merged in 1468. architect who Medardo Rosso, publishers
The left one was built oversaw Arnoldo Mondadori and Ulrico
for Francesco Sforza restoration Hoepli and Jules Richard,
in 1451 and the other of the founder of the Richard-Ginori
was built soon Castello Sforzesco, ceramics industry.
afterwards for his wife. brick the patriot Carlo
façade is double, as is the Cattaneo and the
nave, which has two apses Nobel Prize-winning t Hangar Bicocca
with 15th and 17th-century poet Salvatore Via Chiese 2. Tel 02-66 11 15 73.
frescoes. In the right-hand Quasimodo all have q 1 Sesto Marelli. @ 51, 87.
chapels are plaques in tombs in this Open 11am–1pm Thu–Sun.
memory of Sforzesco cemetery. There Closed 1 Jan, 1 May, 2 Jun, 25 &
court personages. The Sculpture by Fontana, are also busts of 26 Dec. 7 ∑ hangarbicocca.org
chapels opposite have Cimitero Monumentale Garibaldi, Verdi
frescoes by Montalto and Cavour. The Housed in a former factory
and Bernardino Zenale (the Romantic painter Hayez lies building (part of an industrial
fresco in the first chapel is in the crypt. A visit to the complex owned by Ansaldo-
attributed to Zenale). Cimitero Monumentale, Breda-Pirelli), Hangar Bicocca

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