A first church dedicated to the Madonna delle Grazie was present on the left bank of the Naviglio Grande already in the 16th century: in the year 1556, in fact, a chapel was built to house an image of the Madonna considered miraculous.
The original chapel was later demolished and a larger baroque style church was built in its place: this was devastated by fire in 1719 and later restored. In 1849 it was elevated to the rank of parish.

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At the end of the nineteenth century, wanting to demolish the old church, now too small for the growing community, and replace it with a new larger one, the Milanese architect Gaetano Moretti presented his project; this included a three-nave Art Nouveau church, with a high bell tower with several orders and surmounted by a pyramidal spire and a pronaos on the main facade. The definitive project, however, was that of the Milanese architect Cesare Nava, from 1900.

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The construction of the new church began the following year, in 1901, starting from the apse and the cross. In 1908, the last remaining part of the baroque church, i.e. …

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