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San Simpliciano

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7 Piazza San Simpliciano, Milan, 20121

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San Simpliciano (church, Milan, Italy) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
...north Italian painting. The building also contains the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, and its beautiful courtyard is dominated by Antonio Canova's statue of Napoleon. On the Corso Garibaldi stands S. Simpliciano, which according to tradition was founded in the 4th century by St. Ambrose. Its aps...
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San Simpliciano Guide - Yahoo! Travel Guide UK
This church features Roman architecture, partly changed by modern interventions. However, San Simpliciano has kept part of the old walls of the Basilica Virginum, which existed in the 4th century. Begun by Bishop Ambrogio and finished by his successor Simplciano as a place to keep the relics of the ...
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Milan: the church of San Simpliciano
Milan is the home of a number of large churches built in the period of the decline of the Western Roman empire. They are all architecturally distinct, sharing brick masonry construction. San Simpliciano has a fairly simple latin cross plan, originally built in the Fourth Century. The original constr...
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Arounder: Italy: Milan: View San Simpliciano, central nave
In the IXth century the Cluniacensian Benedictines took over the Church which became famous in 1176 due to the victory of the Milanese at Legnano against Barbarossa. During the 1176 campaign, precisely on the 29th May, the battle between the League and the imperial troops in the area between Busto A...
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