Milan
A monastery on the banks of the Ticino
Around 30km from Milan, on a fork of the Vigevano road on some high ground by the Ticino we find this splendid Morimondo Abbey.
Founded by Cistercian monks from Morimond in Borgogna around 1135, this, together with the abbey of Chiaravalle was a base for the vast reclamation works and restructuring of the area around Milan.
On the northern flank of the complex is the majestic church, only partly conseved, dominating the tree-lined piazza and the vast expanse of irrigated fields below.
The brick building with simple stone decorations has kept the style of the other side of the Alps which it acquired in the 1200's; a basilical construction with three regular naves with octagonal and cylindrical brick pillars with stone heads.
Inside there is a splendid wooden choir of two orders, carved in 1522 and a fresco by Bernardo Luini on the nave walls.
Outside, the façade and its windows were altered at the beginning of the 18th century when the access stairwell and the protiro (entry colonnade) were added.
| Neighborhood: | South-west |
| Address: | Piazza San Bernardo, 1 |
| Morimondo, Milano 20081 |
| Phone: | +39 02945206 |