On either side rise two towers decorated with Lombard bands. The facade is long and low, with, on one of the galleries of the court that serves as a porch, a very open forum with five arches that increase in height staggered along the slope profile.Īnother lower grandstand with three equal arcs joins the internal perimeter of the porch. The atrium, a rectangular shape, is surrounded by a portico of composite columns. The internal floor of the basilica is longitudinal and has the same dimensions of the frame, excluding the apse of the measures. In the front and looking at the faithful Christ giving the law appears to Saints Peter and Paul. In the transept stands a dome over horns over a ciborium which has four scenes with four trapezoidal faces of three characters each. The three ships were divided into three bays square, especially with arched vaults and onto a header with three chapels staggered. Ambrose is located in the center of the city of Milan, Italy, in Piazza Sant Ambrogio No. The tiburio was added at the end of the twelfth century but soon collapsed in 1196, then rebuilt with their particular arrangement characterized by external galleries with superimposed arches on two levels. It added four spandrels decorated with stucco to existing early Christian art ciborium and placed beneath the altar of St. During the same period, the apse was decorated with a mosaic, the Redeemer to the throne among the martyrs Protasio and Gervasio, with the archangels Michael and Gabriel, together with two episodes of the life of St. In this century the bishop Angiberto II did add the apse, preceded by a barrel vault, under which were held liturgical celebrations.

Over the years it was restructuring and adding new designs to its architecture, just between the years 10 took its final by order of Bishop Anselm, who sent it to rebuild following the layout of Romanesque architecture.

This is seen in the two bell towers, the facade long and low, the porch and red brick construction. Its sleek design has been considered one of the most important examples of Romanesque architecture of Lombardy. When the same Ambrose was buried in the basilica, he was changing the name. The Basilica of Saint Ambrose (Sant’Ambrogio in Italian), originally called Martyrs Basilica in honor of Christians martyred during the Roman persecutions and buried in the area where the basilica was erected, was commissioned by the bishop of Milan, San Ambrosio between the years 379-386.

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