Chiesa di San Francesco d'Assisi al Fopponino
Chiesa di San Francesco d'Assisi al Fopponino stands on Via Paolo Giovio, near Piazzale Aquileia in Milan. The church occupies a quiet residential setting, where modern religious architecture meets the city's historic fabric.
Gio Ponti designed the parish church, completed in 1964 after the post-war population outgrew the earlier building. Its asymmetrical hexagonal plan gives the structure an unusual shape and a clear architectural identity. The site belonged to the Fopponino cemetery, established during the plague of 1576 and closed in 1895.
Eight diamond-shaped windows open the façade towards the sky, bringing light into the interior. Francesco Tabusso's twelve-by-eight-metre altarpiece, Il Cantico delle Creature, dominates the church's artwork. Scenes from Saint Francis's life and stained-glass windows by Cristoforo De Amicis complete the interior.
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