Religious site
Chiesa di Sant'Angelo
Sant’Angelo, officially Santa Maria degli Angeli, is a Milanese church of the Franciscan Order, built in Italian Baroque taste and attributed to Domenico Giunti. Its story starts with a site already in use by 1418: the earlier church was destroyed to make way for the city’s new walls, and the Spanish general and Governor of Milan, Ferrante Gonzaga, commissioned the new building over those remains. The small bell tower was added in 1607, but the façade was completed only in 1630, in a late-Mannerist or early-Baroque style. Unlike many Milanese churches, it avoided the 19th-century neo-medieval restorations that reshaped so many older interiors. …
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