# Chiesa di San Gottardo in Corte

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Chiesa di San Gottardo in Corte stands in central Milan as a church within the complex now known as the Royal Palace. Azzone Visconti commissioned its construction around 1336 for the noble palaces.

Originally dedicated to the Virgin Mary, the church later took Saint Gotthard as its patron. Visconti sought the saint’s protection from gout and kidney stones. The late-eighteenth-century exterior follows Giuseppe Piermarini’s neoclassical redesign, while the original façade gave way to the palace staircase. The entrance now sits on the south side.

Inside, pastel walls and classical columns frame a single nave leading to a semi-octagonal apse. That apse holds Visconti’s tomb and an altarpiece by Giovanni Battista Crespi. A Crucifixion fresco attributed to Giotto’s school moved indoors in 1952. The Gothic bell tower preserves Milan’s first public clock, whose bell gave the surrounding district its name, Contrada delle Ore.

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