Saint Sigismondo

The church is beautifully frescoed in all its parts, the ornamental wrought iron gates are particular. The very beautiful cloister is now the residence of the cloistered nuns.

Difficult to visit, times that do not correspond and a very short opening. It should be a monument to visit in Cremona, but it has times that a country church should have. As usual in Italy, many beauties and just as much disorganization.

A wonderful place. A total immersion in the imaginative tradition of Cremona in the mid-sixteenth century: between the Parma and Mantuan influences, the Campi brothers and Boccaccio elaborate an interweaving of shapes and colors that can hardly leave indifferent. The walk through the fields is worthwhile.

Wonderful church to visit absolutely, convenient parking and free admission

The church of San Sigismondo is a Catholic place of worship in Cremona, located in Largo Bianca Maria Visconti, near the Ospedale Maggiore. The church, with a single nave with side chapels, was frescoed starting from 1535 and represents one of the most significant decorative complexes of sixteenth-century Mannerism in northern Italy, stylistically harmonious and unitary despite the intervention of various painters (Camillo Boccaccino, Giulio Campi, Bernardino Campi, Bernardino Gatti, Antonio Campi and others). HistoryEdit On the site of today's monastery, there was an ancient church, already dedicated to San Sigismondo, where on 25 October 1441 Bianca Maria Visconti, the only daughter of the Duke of Milan Filippo Maria and the last heir of the Visconti dynasty, married Francesco Sforza, son of the leader. Muzio Attandolo and founder of the Sforza dynasty. This site was chosen for the important event that allowed the passage of the Duchy of Milan from the Visconti to the Sforza, as the city of Cremona was the dowry that Bianca Maria brought to marriage. In memory of the event, the dukes decided to demolish the primitive church already dedicated by the Vallombrosani friars to S. Sigismondo, and to build the new monastery entrusted to the Gerolamini monks. On June 20, 1463, the first stone was laid, still visible in the first chapel on the right upon entering, in the presence of Bianca Maria Visconti and Francesco Sforza, of Bernardo Rossi of Parma, bishop of Cremona, and of the architect Bartolomeo Gadio [1]. The following year the Duchess gave all the monastery's assets in perpetuity to the monks of the order of the hermits of San Gerolamo dell’ Osservanza, granting them the usual exemptions from duties and other privileges and immunities. The character of the ducal factory of the church of San Sigismondo leads us to suppose that the building may have originally had a unitary project, approved by Bianca Maria herself and due to an architect chosen by the dukes, whom a long historiographical tradition identified in Bartolomeo Gadio , a hypothesis abandoned in the most recent studies [2]. The construction site, in fact, after a long gestation, was completed only in the nineties, also thanks to the interest of Ludovico il Moro, so much so that the elevations of the church that we see today seem mostly to date to this phase, completed around the 1510, with the construction of the bell tower. Beautiful church in Cremona. Thank God?⛪