Basilica di Sant'Antonio da Padova
Basilica di Sant'Antonio da Padova stands on Via Carlo Farini in Milan, near the Monumental Cemetery and Porta Garibaldi Station. Its two-tiered neobaroque façade recalls Milanese churches from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Three portals, metopes, triglyphs, and a small porch with Tuscan marble columns define the entrance. A sculpted pediment shows Saint Anthony holding the Child Jesus.
The Friars Minor established the Hospice of the Holy Land on this site in 1872. Construction of the larger basilica began in 1898 under Milanese architect Paolo Cesa Bianchi. The work ended in 2002. At the left, a Liberty-style bell tower rises fifty-five metres and carries a five-metre statue of Saint Anthony. Five bells are tuned to a slightly flat C major.
Inside, neoclassical, neorenaissance, and neobaroque elements shape three naves and a semicircular apse. Painted scenes from Saint Anthony’s life cover the central nave. Six side chapels flank it, while arches rest on pillars between the naves. Giovanni Muzio designed the modern high altar in 1971, above a few steps. A polychrome statue of Saint Anthony holds the Child Jesus there.
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