Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie al Naviglio
Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie al Naviglio stands beside Milan’s Naviglio Grande in the Porta Genova district. Its unfinished brick façade contrasts with the surrounding canal, while the octagonal tiburio and 59-metre bell tower define the exterior.
A small chapel first housed a miraculous image of the Madonna here in the 16th century. A larger Baroque church replaced it before fire damaged the building in 1719, and Cesare Nava’s new design began construction in 1901. Consecrated in 1909, the church follows a Latin-cross plan with three naves, Corinthian marble columns and a 25-metre barrel vault. Stained-glass windows installed between 1988 and 1996 brighten the side naves, while two transept altars stand beneath large stained-glass triforia.
The bell tower contains five bells, and the planned façade never received its three portals, lunettes or statues.
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