Civico Tempio di San Sebastiano
The Civico Tempio di San Sebastiano stands on Via Torino in Milan, with a cylindrical form beneath a prominent dome. Eight pairs of Doric pilasters frame the exterior arches. Those arches correspond to internal chapels, linking the building’s outer rhythm with its sacred spaces within.
Antonio de Guzmán Zúñiga y Sotomayor initiated the temple as a votive offering after Milan’s devastating plague of 1576. Pellegrino Tibaldi designed its cylindrical structure, drawing on early Christian churches and Rome’s Pantheon. Construction began in 1577, with the first stone laid on 6 September. Giuseppe Meda and Pietro Antonio Barca later shaped the dome, while Fabio Mangone completed the presbytery in 1616.
Inside, a 1928 pipe organ by Balbiani-Vegezzi Bossi has two keyboards and a pedalboard. A seventeenth-century oil painting depicts San Sebastiano. Benedetto Cacciatori’s marble La Pietà adds another focal point among the artworks. Civic and religious administration meet here, with Milan’s six district blazons worked into the decoration.
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