Certosa di Garegnano
Certosa di Garegnano—also called Certosa di Milano—is a former Carthusian monastery on the outskirts of Milan that continues as a Capuchin Friars community. It is dedicated to Saint Ambrose and is also known by the Marian title “Our Lady of the Lamb of God,” with the Italian name Santa Maria Assunta in Certosa. The charterhouse was founded on 5 October 1349 by Giovanni Visconti, bishop and lord of Milan, and monks from here—under the patronage of Galeazzo Visconti—helped establish the Certosa of Pavia soon after. In the 14th century, it also hosted Petrarch, placing this site at the intersection of monastic life and Renaissance letters. The complex was pillaged in 1449, then suppressed during the rationalist reforms associated with Emperor Joseph II under Austrian rule, before becoming a parish church in 1782. …
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