Parrocchia Di S. Martino

Great

A tree in the church: gorgeous

Visited by participating in a foot race. Beautiful architectural structure

Good morning ! Beautiful Church. Traditional, architectural. The new Parish Priest is also very good! I recommend it. Good day Carmen.

Thanks to the recent restorations, if you pass by dine below you cannot fail to enter it is a place that fills the soul and brain

Of ancient origins it was rebuilt for the first time in 1534 and later in 1718 with a single nave with 2 side chapels. The high altar with inlays in polychrome marble and a tribune decorated with well-worked cherubs and the walnut choir are very beautiful. valuable including a MORONI and a large painting by SALMEGGIA with the Madonna of Loreto and Saints. In the apse area there are 5 large 1700s canvases with very elegant and bright episodes from the life of San Martino by G. Carobbio and other good paintings.The organ is the work of the Serassi brothers.

The Church of San Martino in Cenate Sotto has medieval origins, with a first attestation dating back to the 13th century. A first reconstruction took place around the middle of the sixteenth century. At the beginning of the eighteenth century the Renaissance church was demolished and rebuilt in its present form. In the twenties of the twentieth century the church was enlarged by moving the facade forward ten meters. The Baroque style façade is a little hidden from the surrounding buildings and from the fact that there is not a real square in front of it, rather a transit way and the Monument to the Fallen. The absence of the square is due to the twentieth-century extension of the church, which went into incorporating it. The churchyard is also quite small. The church building is completed by the bell tower and the small church of the Addolorata, built as a cemetery church at the beginning of the eighteenth century. On 10 November last, we made a visit, excellently guided by the art historian Marco Bombardieri, an active member of InChiostro itineraries and art meetings, who exhibited with care and great knowledge of the many details, the works of great artistic value kept inside the church. Among these, first of all, the canvas painted around 1572 by Giovan Battista Moroni. Once an altarpiece and now on the right wall just after the entrance, the masterpiece of the so-called "gray period" depicts the Madonna and Child above, below Saint Martin and the poor with Don Leone Cucchi on the left. On the back wall, just above the entrance door, you can admire the Translation of the Holy House, a canvas executed by Enea Salmeggia, signed and dated 1622. Originally executed for the sanctuary of Loreto in Cenate Sotto, it was transferred to the parish church in the 19th century for security reasons. With its 450x450 cm, it is the largest work of Salmeggia and constitutes a beautiful example of painting of the Counter-Reformation. In the chapel on the right wall is the Madonna del Rosario between Saints Domenico and Carlo Borromeo, a painting by the northern European painter Nicolas Renier, executed around 1650 and one of the rare works of the painter in Lombardy. The ceiling of the nave, the dome and the apse are enriched with frescoes of sacred subject executed around 1910 by the best Bergamo painters of the time, including Pietro Servalli and Giovanni Battista Galizzi. The apse houses the High Altar, created by sculptor Andrea Fantoni and his workshop around 1715/1720 and behind this a beautiful inlaid wooden choir from the 18th century. The choir on the left wall houses the organ from the famous Serassi Factory. The Sacristy, set up as an art gallery, contains other works, including the Immaculate Conception and Saints, an Angel with a trumpet and a scourge, a small San Rocco and a San Benedetto, all executed by Antonio Cifrondi in the years between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as well as a St. Anthony of Padua with the Child and little angels by Carlo Ceresa, circa 1675, St. Francis in ecstasy by Giuseppe Nuvolone, one of the best Milanese painters of the seventeenth century, and a Madonna with Child and St. John the Baptist by Giovan Paolo Cavagna , around 1600. A specific mention deserves the Banner of Cenate Sotto by Troilo Lupi, signed and dated 1578, since it was placed in the door of the sacristy furniture - a masterpiece of intaglio and inlay of the XVIII century - so as to make visible also the back side of the canvas, also it painted. The Church of the Addolorata preserves in its interior the Virgin of Sorrows, carved in wood around 1750 from the workshop of Grazioso Fantoni the Younger, nephew of Andrea Fantoni, as well as the Madonna del Rosario of the Sanz workshop, a fine example of dressed sculpture performed at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Parish Church of Cenate Sotto located in the central square of the town. Very beautiful works of art inside, among the main a masterpiece painted by Gian Battista Moroni and the organ built by Seghezzi.