CRIPTA SAN SEPOLCRO

Cultura 

Piazza San Sepolcro , 20121 Milano

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Come down in the crypt of St. Sepulchre means taking a step back in time, back over 2000 years because, although the Church and the Crypt as we know them today were founded the 6th December 1030 for the behest of Benedetto Rozone, master of the Milanese Mint, this place where was built the Church has at least another 1,000 years of previous history.  At that time and just to this area of ​​the city, refer the ancient crossroads between the thistle and the decumanus of the Roman Milan whose most important traces remain today not only in the floor of the Crypt, made ​​with slabs of the Roman Forum, but the Forum itself, present a few meters away from the Crypt (available at the cash the dates and the opening hours ).  The crypt is the center and beating heart of the city, it is a very important place for the religion but also for the history.  Continuing through the centuries that they saw protagonist crypt, we come to the testimony of Leonardo da Vinci. During his first stay in Milan he pays, at the court of Ludovico il Moro, he asserts his attention to St. Sepulchre, he designed a double planimetry, one time conserved by the Biblioteca Ambrosiana and now in Paris.  In the first planimetry, Leonardo draw the map of the upper Church, in the second one the lower church (or Crypt); he sketched columns, pillars, altars, stairs, everything with the right details.  Very important is also a page of the Codice Atlantico (atlantic code), conserved in Ambrosiana, where Leonardo draw a map of Milan, in this map he indicated with a square the St. Sepulchre Church like “ il vero mezzo di Milano”  the real center of Milano.

 

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hours
Monday: 2pm - 6pm. Tuesday - Friday: 2pm - 8m. Saturday -Sunday: 12am - 8pm.

phone
340 4085729