Sant'Abbondio

Superb eleventh-century Romanesque church with frescoed apse

Address Via Sant'Abbondio

Standing just outside the old city walls, Sant'Abbondio is one of the finest Romanesque churches in northern Italy. Built in the eleventh century by the Maestri Comacini — the master builders who spread their craft across medieval Europe — it has two slender bell towers flanking a deep apse covered in fourteenth-century frescoes depicting the life of Christ. The interior is austere and affecting.

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