Santa Maria del Carmine

Santa Maria del Carmine is a church in Pavia, Lombardy, northern Italy, considered among the first-class examples of Lombard Gothic structure. It become begun in 1374 by Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan, on a project attributed to Bernardo da Venezia. The creation observed a slow tempo, and was restarted in 1432, being completed in 1461. The church has an enforcing facade commanding the rectangular with the identical call; the slender bureaucracy betray a residual Romanesque affect, despite the fact that the decorations are undoubutably of Lombard Gothic fashion.

The facade is divided into 5 vertical compartments by six pilasters surmounted through spires. The three vital sectors have a portal every, remade by means of Giuseppe Marchesi in 1854. Over the portals are four large ogival mullioned windows and an elaborated rose window in brickwork. The bell tower, courting to c. 1450, has several friezes and a triple mullioned window with marble columns. This is the best location to visit with your loved ones.