Basilica di Sant'Eustorgio
Basilica di Sant'Eustorgio
4.5
7:30 AM - 12:00 PM, 3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Monday
7:30 AM - 12:00 PM
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Tuesday
7:30 AM - 12:00 PM
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Wednesday
7:30 AM - 12:00 PM
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Thursday
7:30 AM - 12:00 PM
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Friday
7:30 AM - 12:00 PM
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Saturday
7:30 AM - 12:00 PM
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Sunday
8:45 AM - 1:00 PM
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
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Semaan D. Makary
Lebanon519 contributions
Apr. 2023 • Business
This stunning church is part of a large complex, along with the Portinari Chapel that contains amazing frescoes, such as ‘the Virgin with horns’ and Museo Diocesano. All of them are worth a visit.
Written April 28, 2023
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ANGELO V
Milan, Italy2,893 contributions
Jan. 2023
This Basilica is dedicated to Saint Eustorgius, Archbishop of Milano from 343 to around 349 AD. The church was founded around 344 AD, during the late imperial Roman period, when the Roman city of Mediolanum (modern Milan) was the capital of the Western Roman Empire. It is one of the early Christian basilicas of Milano.
Emperor Constans I gifted Saint Eustorgius with a stone sarcophagus containing the relics of the Magi, coming from the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (where they were buried several decades earlier by the Empress Saint Helena).
The current facade of the basilica is the result of a restoration in neo-Romanesque style, carried out during the 1860s.
The main altar is dominated by a marble polyptych commissioned at the end of the 14th century. Over the altar there is a wooden crucifix, and under the altar the bones of St. Eustorgius and two other Bishops of Milano are kept.
An early Christian cemetery is visible underneath the Basilica, and the sacristy holds a museum of reliquaries and other religious artifacts.
In the church there are several side chapels, among which:
- the Chapel of the Magi, with the stone sarcophagus from Emperor Constans I - which is now empty, since Fredrick Barbarossa stole the relics of the Magi in 1162, and brought them to Cologne. A few bones were returned in 1904: they are kept in the reliquary placed above the altar of the chapel (they are visible to the public only in very few cases).
- the Portinari Chapel, built between 1462 and 1468, one of the most complete and best preserved examples of Lombard Renaissance. It also preserves the ark of the martyr Saint Peter of Verona. A stunning rainbow-colored dome covers the chapel, and frescoes by Vincenzo Foppa.
Emperor Constans I gifted Saint Eustorgius with a stone sarcophagus containing the relics of the Magi, coming from the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (where they were buried several decades earlier by the Empress Saint Helena).
The current facade of the basilica is the result of a restoration in neo-Romanesque style, carried out during the 1860s.
The main altar is dominated by a marble polyptych commissioned at the end of the 14th century. Over the altar there is a wooden crucifix, and under the altar the bones of St. Eustorgius and two other Bishops of Milano are kept.
An early Christian cemetery is visible underneath the Basilica, and the sacristy holds a museum of reliquaries and other religious artifacts.
In the church there are several side chapels, among which:
- the Chapel of the Magi, with the stone sarcophagus from Emperor Constans I - which is now empty, since Fredrick Barbarossa stole the relics of the Magi in 1162, and brought them to Cologne. A few bones were returned in 1904: they are kept in the reliquary placed above the altar of the chapel (they are visible to the public only in very few cases).
- the Portinari Chapel, built between 1462 and 1468, one of the most complete and best preserved examples of Lombard Renaissance. It also preserves the ark of the martyr Saint Peter of Verona. A stunning rainbow-colored dome covers the chapel, and frescoes by Vincenzo Foppa.
Written January 26, 2023
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Laurentiu
Bucharest, Romania1,737 contributions
Mar. 2022
Old, Romanesque-style Catholic church with historic paintings & an attached museum.
Nice to be visited
Nice to be visited
Written July 16, 2022
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Brun066
Florence, Italy12,231 contributions
May 2021
I recently visited the San Eustorgio church after a long time. Here I would like to focus in particular on two attractions that it contains, and which are probably the ones drawing most of the visitors.
The first attraction is the Tomb of the so-called Three Kings ("Re Magi" in Italian). Giant sarcophagus, it bears the inscription “Sepulcrum trium magorum” (which, however, was only added in the 18th century). An explanatory panel at the sarcophagus summarizes the tradition of their translation from Constantinople in 343 AD, and the subsequent (instead well documented) transport to Cologne in Germany in 1164, as war prey that Emperor Frederick I Hohenstaufen took from the city of Milan after its surrender.
The alleged relics of the Three Kings are still found in Cologne (the imposing cathedral of the city was started to house them), so what you see is an empty sarcophagus. However, it invites us to learn more about the history of the Kings, to distinguish the facts somehow documented from inventions (many) and to deepen the allegorical meaning of their history: alluding to a Christian revelation that is also addressed to "gentiles" (= non-Jews), originally first of all those from Eastern world.
The Portinari Chapel is quite different. It, linked to the church but well distinct from it from the architectural point of view, shows a quadrangular plan surmounted by a dome, which as such recalls the Old Sacristy of the church of San Lorenzo in Florence, by Filippo Brunelleschi; but otherwise it differs from the sobriety of the original to graft onto this structure decorative elements typical of the Lombard Renaissance (Certosa di Pavia, Colleoni Chapel in Bergamo): above all the dancing angels in terracotta on the dome drum, and the dome itself covered by polychrome scales. In my opinion, this synthesis is wonderful.
The chapel has not been attributed with certainty to an architect. Today the name of Guiniforte Solari (1429-1481) is considered: he shaped the Milan of his time, thanks to the role he had in the main buildings in progress.
The admirable frescoes on the walls, regarding the life of St. Peter "the martyr", are the work of another illustrious Lombard, Vincenzo Foppa, while the sepulchral ark of the saint, in the center of the chapel, is a work of the fourteenth century, later transported here , and it is probably due to Giovanni di Balduccio (Pisa, 1300-1349). The Chapel as a whole therefore documents, among other things, the transition from the era in which Lombardy was a tributary [also] of the Tuscan artists, to the era when the Lombard Renaissance was fully autonomous.
The first attraction is the Tomb of the so-called Three Kings ("Re Magi" in Italian). Giant sarcophagus, it bears the inscription “Sepulcrum trium magorum” (which, however, was only added in the 18th century). An explanatory panel at the sarcophagus summarizes the tradition of their translation from Constantinople in 343 AD, and the subsequent (instead well documented) transport to Cologne in Germany in 1164, as war prey that Emperor Frederick I Hohenstaufen took from the city of Milan after its surrender.
The alleged relics of the Three Kings are still found in Cologne (the imposing cathedral of the city was started to house them), so what you see is an empty sarcophagus. However, it invites us to learn more about the history of the Kings, to distinguish the facts somehow documented from inventions (many) and to deepen the allegorical meaning of their history: alluding to a Christian revelation that is also addressed to "gentiles" (= non-Jews), originally first of all those from Eastern world.
The Portinari Chapel is quite different. It, linked to the church but well distinct from it from the architectural point of view, shows a quadrangular plan surmounted by a dome, which as such recalls the Old Sacristy of the church of San Lorenzo in Florence, by Filippo Brunelleschi; but otherwise it differs from the sobriety of the original to graft onto this structure decorative elements typical of the Lombard Renaissance (Certosa di Pavia, Colleoni Chapel in Bergamo): above all the dancing angels in terracotta on the dome drum, and the dome itself covered by polychrome scales. In my opinion, this synthesis is wonderful.
The chapel has not been attributed with certainty to an architect. Today the name of Guiniforte Solari (1429-1481) is considered: he shaped the Milan of his time, thanks to the role he had in the main buildings in progress.
The admirable frescoes on the walls, regarding the life of St. Peter "the martyr", are the work of another illustrious Lombard, Vincenzo Foppa, while the sepulchral ark of the saint, in the center of the chapel, is a work of the fourteenth century, later transported here , and it is probably due to Giovanni di Balduccio (Pisa, 1300-1349). The Chapel as a whole therefore documents, among other things, the transition from the era in which Lombardy was a tributary [also] of the Tuscan artists, to the era when the Lombard Renaissance was fully autonomous.
Written May 17, 2021
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Kingsley Flint
Cossonay, Switzerland188 contributions
Sep. 2020
Utterly stunning Middle Ages and Renaissance beauties hiding behind this lovely old church in their museum. This is the Capella Portinari, one of the most exquisite places to visit in Milan or anywhere if you love ecclesiastical art of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. The Huge marble tomb of the Martyr Peter, covered in wonderful sculptures on three levels, was carved in 1339, the extraordinary chapel Full of fascinating frescoes in which it sits was decorated in the 1400s. The ring of angels in the drum of the dome is unbelievable. This is a gem, up there with the Last Supper and anything else in the great treasures of the city.
Written September 26, 2020
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Cymro
Coimbra, Portugal3,356 contributions
Nov. 2019
If you walk back to O Duomo from the Grand Canal you will pass by this church. It's large and in addition to the church there are 2 museums to view.
Written January 29, 2020
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wherewego.cityhideout
Zagreb, Croatia1,541 contributions
Nov. 2019
Huge basilica near canals. It has very nice architecture, and there is not to much people in front, we did not go inside because it time we was passing by there was funeral.
Written December 3, 2019
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differentname
Woodbridge, CT2,597 contributions
Sep. 2019
... or so they claim.
This was an important stop for pilgrims on their way to Rome or the Holy Land, because there is a sarcophagus that alledgedly contained the remains of the Three Kings.
This was an important stop for pilgrims on their way to Rome or the Holy Land, because there is a sarcophagus that alledgedly contained the remains of the Three Kings.
Written October 16, 2019
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Eduardo
Panama City, Panama165 contributions
Jun. 2019 • Friends
This church was great for a quick stop. I recommend searching for it on the internet for more information about the church and its history as none is provided.
Written June 25, 2019
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Regan A
Saint Clair Shores, MI86 contributions
May 2019 • Family
This church was worth a quick stop for its historical significance. If you're in the area I would recommend. The bones may be gone, but the tomb that supposedly carried the 3 wise men is here and that's still cool.
Written June 2, 2019
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Ghiandaia L
5 contributions
quali sono gli orari di apertura ?
Francesco S
Benevento, Italy142 contributions
La basilica e il museo sono aperti tutti i giorni dalle 10 alle 18. Per visitare il museo è necessario pagare un biglietto, che per gli adulti costa 6 euro. Buona visita
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