Chiesa di San Luigi
Chiesa di San Luigi Gonzaga stands in Milan’s Corvetto area as a basilica-style church with three naves. Its projecting central façade rises behind four large columns, creating a clear architectural focus. A fifty-metre bell tower stands beside it, with an eclectic profile visible from afar.
Construction ran from 1892 to 1897, commemorating Archbishop Luigi Nazari di Calabiana’s twenty-fifth episcopal anniversary. Don Enrico Locatelli, a parish priest and architect from Vergiate, designed the building with engineer Antonio Casati. Nazari di Calabiana laid the first stone in 1892, while Cardinal Andrea Carlo Ferrari consecrated it in 1897. The archbishop died the following year, before seeing the completed church.
Inside, a barrel-vaulted central nave runs between marble columns towards a windowed apse. Stained-glass windows portraying saints and religious figures joined the interior in 1929. The plaza outside is often used as an unorganised parking area, contrasting with the church’s formal architecture.
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