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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Practical Information
Map 4 E4. Palazzi not open to
public. San Babila: Piazza San
Babila. Tel 02-76 00 28 77.
Open 7:30am–noon, 3:30–7pm
daily. 5 8, 8:30 & 10:30am,
6:30pm Mon–Fri; 8 & 10:30am,
6:30pm Sat; 8, 9:30 & 11am, 12:30
& 6:30pm Sun, hols.
Transport
q 1 Porta Venezia–Palestro–San
Babila. v 9. @ 54, 61, 94.
4 . Casa Fontana-Silvestri
This rare example of a Renaissance
residence in Milan was built in the Bramante is thought by a number
late 15th century by Angelo of scholars to have worked on the
Fontana. The windows on decoration of the façade.
the façade are framed in
brick and the portal by
candelabrum columns.

Above the portal
is San Carlo’s motto,
Humilitas.

5 Seminario Arcivescovile
This seminary was begun in
1565 by Seregni for San Carlo
Borromeo. The portal was
added in 1652 by Francesco
Maria Richini.

The campanile was
built in 1820, after the
original collapsed.

6 . San Babila
The church was built in the 11th
century over a 4th-century basilica
and rebuilt in the 1500s. The rather
heavy-handed restoration of the
Romanesque original began in 1853.

The present-day Neo-
Romanesque façade
was designed in 1906 by
Paolo Cesa Bianchi, who
also built the high altar.

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