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Lanzo d'Intelvi

San Siro, Lanzo d'Intelvi

Lanzo's church with its tall bell tower over the square, Romanesque in origin and rebuilt from 1476: inside, early sixteenth-century Lombard frescoes of the Doctors of the Church, the Last Supper and the Evangelists.

Visit duration
15–30 min
Booking
Not required
Area
Val d'Intelvi
The pale church with its tall bell tower and clock, above the square with parked cars and the steps.Aniello Bizzoco · CC BY-SA 4.0
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The pale church with its tall bell tower and clock, above the square with parked cars and the steps.

Aniello Bizzoco · CC BY-SA 4.0

Why go

San Siro has Romanesque origins; today's church was begun in 1476, completed during the sixteenth century and reworked in the nineteenth.

Inside, early sixteenth-century frescoes of the Lombard school remain: the first four Doctors of the Church, the Last Supper, the Evangelists and Saints Lawrence and Stephen. There are also some eighteenth-century paintings and an altar by Carlo Antonio Carlone, of the Intelvi family of artists. A few hundred metres away is the sanctuary of the Madonna di Loreto, and further down, at Scaria, the Carloni churches.

  • The Romanesque bell tower, dated to around 1000–1025, has four twin-light windows, each divided by a small stone column.
  • On the chancel walls, alongside the Last Supper, is an Adoration of the Magi attributed to a follower of Bernardino Luini.
  • The sixteenth-century marble tabernacle bears figures of the Pietà, the Redeemer and Saints Syrus and Abundius.

Highlights

  • The four Doctors of the Church
  • The Evangelists and Saints Lawrence and Stephen
  • Carlo Antonio Carlone's altar

Getting there

  • It stands in the centre of Lanzo d'Intelvi, part of Alta Valle Intelvi, a few hundred metres from the Madonna di Loreto sanctuary.

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Lanzo d'IntelviSan Siro, Lanzo d'Intelvi

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