{"id":6760,"date":"2024-11-26T14:08:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T14:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.breradesigndistrict.it\/?p=6760"},"modified":"2024-11-26T14:11:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T14:11:38","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breradesigndistrict.it\/en\/news\/curiosita\/fontana-castiglioni-san-francesco\/","title":{"rendered":"The Castiglioni fountain","raw":"The Castiglioni fountain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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One of Milan’s most famous fountains<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Giannino Castiglioni designed the fountain for a competition organised by the newspaper L’Italia in 1923.
The aim of the competition, which had water as its theme, was to create a monument dedicated to the patron saint of Italy, Francis of Assisi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Castiglioni won with the design of an octagonal fountain cut out of simple granite blocks, measuring about 35 square metres.
The fountain depicts the Saint with a group of six bronze turtledoves.
On the rim are also carved verses from the Canticle of the Creatures

The fountain was designed and sculpted in Lierna, by Castiglioni himself, and was placed in front of the Church and Convent of St. Angelo, of the Friars Minor, in a corner of the square of the same name, planted with lime and elm trees, where we still find it today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was inaugurated by the city of Milan on 18 December 1927 and will soon celebrate its centenary.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"raw":"\n\n\n\n\n

Giannino Castiglioni designed the fountain for a competition organised by the newspaper L'Italia in 1923.
The aim of the competition, which had water as its theme, was to create a monument dedicated to the patron saint of Italy, Francis of Assisi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Castiglioni won with the design of an octagonal fountain cut out of simple granite blocks, measuring about 35 square metres.
The fountain depicts the Saint with a group of six bronze turtledoves.
On the rim are also carved verses from the Canticle of the Creatures

The fountain was designed and sculpted in Lierna, by Castiglioni himself, and was placed in front of the Church and Convent of St. Angelo, of the Friars Minor, in a corner of the square of the same name, planted with lime and elm trees, where we still find it today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was inaugurated by the city of Milan on 18 December 1927 and will soon celebrate its centenary.<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false,"raw":""},"author":2,"featured_media":6763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_it_post_content":"\n\n\n

Giannino Castiglioni progett\u00f2 la fontana per la partecipazione ad una gara indetta dal giornale L'Italia nel 1923.
La finalit\u00e0 del concorso, che come tema scelto aveva l'acqua, era la realizzazione di un monumento dedicato al patrono d'Italia, Francesco d'Assisi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Castiglioni vinse con il progetto di una fontana di forma ottagonale tagliata in semplici blocchi di granito, di circa 35 mq raffigurante San Francesco con un gruppo di sei tortore in bronzo.
Sul bordo sono scolpiti inoltre alcuni versi del Cantico delle Creature<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La fontana venne disegnata e scolpita a Lierna, da Castiglioni stesso, e venne posizionata davanti alla Chiesa e al convento di S. Angelo, dei Frati Minori, in un angolo della piazza omonima, sistemata a verde con alberi di tiglio e olmo, dove tutt'oggi la troviamo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Venne inaugurata dalla citt\u00e0 di Milano il 18 dicembre 1927 e tra non molto festegger\u00e0 il suo centenario.<\/p>\n","_it_post_name":"fontana-castiglioni-san-francesco","_it_post_excerpt":"","_it_post_title":"La fontana di Castiglioni","_en_post_content":"\n\n\n\n\n

Giannino Castiglioni designed the fountain for a competition organised by the newspaper L'Italia in 1923.
The aim of the competition, which had water as its theme, was to create a monument dedicated to the patron saint of Italy, Francis of Assisi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Castiglioni won with the design of an octagonal fountain cut out of simple granite blocks, measuring about 35 square metres.
The fountain depicts the Saint with a group of six bronze turtledoves.
On the rim are also carved verses from the Canticle of the Creatures

The fountain was designed and sculpted in Lierna, by Castiglioni himself, and was placed in front of the Church and Convent of St. Angelo, of the Friars Minor, in a corner of the square of the same name, planted with lime and elm trees, where we still find it today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was inaugurated by the city of Milan on 18 December 1927 and will soon celebrate its centenary.<\/p>\n","_en_post_name":"","_en_post_excerpt":"","_en_post_title":"The Castiglioni fountain","edit_language":"en","footnotes":""},"categories":[827],"tags":[894,901],"class_list":["post-6760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curiosita","tag-personaggi-storici","tag-storie-di-quartiere"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breradesigndistrict.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breradesigndistrict.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breradesigndistrict.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breradesigndistrict.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breradesigndistrict.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6760"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.breradesigndistrict.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6766,"href":"https:\/\/www.breradesigndistrict.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760\/revisions\/6766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breradesigndistrict.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breradesigndistrict.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breradesigndistrict.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breradesigndistrict.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}