Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Sights
1
Basilica di San Lorenzo Maggiore
BASILICA
The touching simplicity of this early Christian basilica, with its central dome and
squat towers, managed to survive a substantial reconstruction in the 16th century.
The octagonal Cappella di Sant'Aquilino's 4th-century mosaic of a toga-clad Jesus
holding court is also the real deal; the highly individual and seemingly cosmopolit-
an apostles in his thrall make the millennia fly by. Behind the basilica, a park full
of rose beds and mulberry bushes links San Lorenzo with Sant'Eustorgio.
(
www.sanlorenzomaggiore.com
; Corso di Porta Ticinese 39; admission free;
7.30am-12.30pm &
2.30-6.30pm;
Missori)
2
San Lorenzo Columns
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE
The freestanding row of 16 Corinthian columns from Milan's Mediolanum heyday
were salvaged from a crumbling Roman residence and lined up here to form the
portico of the new basilica.
(Corso di Porta Ticinese;
Missori)
