Chiesa di San Martino in Greco

Chiesa di San Martino in Greco stands in Milan’s Greco district, with a neoclassical façade arranged in two levels beneath a triangular pediment. The first known structure dates from 1148, linking the site to Milan’s Middle Ages. Snow caused the original structure to collapse, and the present building rose during the seventeenth century. A bell tower completes the exterior with eight cast-iron columns.

Raised in the late nineteenth century for larger bells, the tower gives the façade a distinctive vertical feature. Inside, a single nave opens onto three chapels on each side. Small passages connect those chapels, creating the impression of three naves within the actual single-nave plan.

Isidoro Pugnato’s Saint Anthony with the Child dates from 1654, while a gilded wooden crucifix carries cherub heads. The third chapel on the left contains a Madonna with Saints attributed to an unknown sixteenth-century Tuscan artist. Other works include The Trinity Adored by the People, linked to Federico Barocci’s school, and Luigi Scaramuccia’s Mystical Communion of Saint Catherine of Siena, painted before 1673.