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Valmadrera

Sant'Antonio Abate, Valmadrera

Visit duration
15–30 min
Booking
Not required
Area
Lecco Branch
The pale Neoclassical front with its pediment, the half-moon window and the inscription DEO O. M. ET DIVO ANTONIO DIC.; to the right the tall bell tower with its clock and colonnaded little temple at the top, to the left the old stone bell tower with its red spire, and the paved square in front.Kaitu · CC BY 4.0
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The pale Neoclassical front with its pediment, the half-moon window and the inscription DEO O. M. ET DIVO ANTONIO DIC.; to the right the tall bell tower with its clock and colonnaded little temple at the top, to the left the old stone bell tower with its red spire, and the paved square in front.

Kaitu · CC BY 4.0

Why go

Sant'Antonio Abate is Valmadrera's Neoclassical parish church, designed by Giuseppe Bovara and consecrated in 1834.

The parish moved here from San Martino in 1566. Giovanni Barboglio's bell tower, built between 1926 and 1930, is 87.5 metres high including the cross; the old seventeenth-century tower stands beside it. Four columns support the dome, painted by Luigi Sabatelli with scenes from the Apocalypse. Inside are two frescoes by Raffaele Casnedi in the chancel, Mosè Bianchi's Crucifixion and Giuseppe Bertini's Assumption. The furnishings include statues by Benedetto Cacciatori, the altar designed by Bovara and two angels by Pompeo Marchesi.

  • The front, widened in 1908, has three doorways and six pilasters with Tuscan capitals.
  • The old bell tower, to the left of the front, has a double bell chamber opened by single-light windows and serlianas.
  • Benedetto Cacciatori carved the statues of the Redeemer and of Saint Anthony.

Highlights

  • Giovanni Barboglio's bell tower
  • Luigi Sabatelli's Apocalypse in the dome
  • Mosè Bianchi's Crucifixion and Giuseppe Bertini's Assumption
  • The old seventeenth-century bell tower

Getting there

  • It stands on Piazza Monsignor Bernardo Citterio, in the centre of Valmadrera.

Accessibility

  • There is a ramp in front of the entrance, built in the 1990s.

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