Santa Maria Annunciata in Chiesa Rossa

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Santa Maria Annunciata in Chiesa Rossa is a church in Milan, via Neera 24.

Interior with art Fluorescent tubes by Dan Flavin.

The name "Chiesa Rossa" derived from the old church of "Santa Maria" near the "Naviglio Pavese" canal called also "Santa Maria ad Fonticulum".

The construction started by Franco Della Porta in Romanesque Revival style, and was completed in 1932 by Giovanni Muzio. The facade was built in the 1960.

A consecration plaque near main entrance remembers the church was consecrated on December 21, 1932 by Cardinal Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Archbishop of Milan .

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