Chiesa arcipretale di San Lorenzo

The basilica of San Lorenzo Maggiore (original early Christian basilica palatine name) is a Catholic basilica in Milan. Among the oldest churches in the city, the building was rebuilt and modified several times in the external forms almost completely preserving the primitive plant of late-ancient era: together with the front columns of San Lorenzo, once part of the anti-portico of the building, it is considered one of the major monumental complexes of Roman times in Milan. The basilica is also considered to be the first building symmetrically centralized by the Christian West [1].

The church is located a stone's throw from the landing stage. Worth a visit for those passing through Mandello. Well painted and with a beautiful working organ.

One of the most beautiful churches in Mandello, the bell tower dates back to the Middle Ages and the interior is baroque, with paintings by Agostino Santagostino, worth seeing for those wishing to spend a day in Mandello.

S.lorenzo is certainly a pearl where worship and art come together .. A place capable of creating an atmosphere of quiet and peace that refreshes the soul ... if you are nearby and find it open ... do not miss the opportunity of a visit

Beautiful Baroque style church inside, interesting canvases, an ancient Serassi organ from 1769 and the main altar in carved and gilded wood, as well as a beautiful choir with walnut inlays and carvings from the 1600s.

Beautiful ancient church, in the center of Mandello Lario, with unclear origins as there is no reliable documentation. It seems to have been built around 650 AD. C., while inside it is located the chapel of Santa Marta which is more precisely dated towards the end of the 16th century.

Church of the XVI rich in works of art, including a beautiful organ. The visit is a must for those visiting Mandello del Lario

The history of the church of San Lorenzo in Mandello del Lario is still uncertain. As we have not received documents attesting the year of its foundation, the scholars have relied on the archaeological findings that have demonstrated the early Christian layout of the primitive structure. This was rebuilt in medieval times and again by 1613, when the bishop of Como Filippo Archinti consecrated a completely renovated building. The seventeenth-century church corresponds to the present one, with a longitudinal vaulted plan, with a rectangular presbytery and four chapels. The current one is a church very rich in works of art. Among the wooden furnishings, the main altar and the choir, built by Andrea Radaelli in 1691, stand out. The figurative heritage includes the large canvases with Stories of San Lorenzo painted by Agostino Santagostino between 1684 and 1687, an eighteenth-century altar by Federico Ferrario depicting the Trinity with the Madonna, St. Michael and the Guardian Angel and the extensive pictorial decoration of the nave made by Luigi Tagliaferri in 1916. Also noteworthy are the stuccos by Giacomo Scotti that frame the canvases of Santagostino and the Serassi organ from 1764. The chapel of Santa Marta, adjacent to the museum, is a 'church within a church', where some seventeenth-century paintings are preserved, including the Martyrdom of St. Stephen attributable to the Recchi painters. This was originally the altarpiece of the church of Santa Maria di Debbio. Mandello - San Lorenzo building complex The archpriest church of San Lorenzo constitutes, together with the adjacent Romanesque bell tower, the chapel of Santa Marta and the former house of the Disciplini, a building complex whose evolutionary phases, closely connected to each other, were conditioned by the ancient defensive structures of the village. A first cult building dedicated to San Lorenzo was founded in Mandello in the 5th century. It was probably a Castrense church, whose northern side leaned against the surrounding walls of the ancient Roman settlement. This primitive church developed more or less parallel to the current archpriest for about eleven meters. In the 12th century it was flanked by a new building with a bell tower, which inherited the dedication to San Lorenzo as well as the functions of church leader. The old church was then 'downgraded' and progressively canceled. The Romanesque church was made up of three naves with apses and separated by large columns. This church survived until the seventeenth century, when the current archpriest was built in its place and incorporated the aforementioned chapel of Santa Marta. Instead, the imposing bell tower that still stands in front of the facade was spared.