Basilica di Sant’Eufemia
In Milan, the Basilica di Sant’Eufemia presents a Catholic church with neo-Romanesque and neo-Gothic features. Its origins probably reach back to 472, when Bishop Saint Senator brought a relic of Saint Euphemia from Chalcedon.
Several reconstructions shaped the building, especially during the fifteenth century and again in 1870. Architect Enrico Terzaghi lengthened and raised the central nave for structural stability. A projecting façade and marble-columned portico face the street. Inside, mosaics recall the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia in Ravenna, while polychrome frescoes cover the walls and ceilings.
The interior unfolds through a nineteenth-century forepart, a nave, and an apse. Cristoforo Solari’s Brasca Tomb stands among paintings linked to Marco d’Oggiono and Simone Peterzano. Peterzano’s Pentecost arrived from the nearby church of San Paolo Converso. Natale Balbiani’s 1909 organ remains in its neo-Gothic case, and Maria Callas recorded here during the 1950s.
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