Summary (English)
The ancient Ecclesia Sancti Petri ad Ulmum, which has survived in its Romanesque form, arose 12km west of Milan along the Roman road to Novaria. It is first mentioned in a document of circa 1100 and was subsequently altered during the course of the following centuries.
The first investigation, which it is hoped will lead to more extensive interventions, involved a geophysical survey and several trial trenches and identified structures of importance for the architectural definition of the monument. It also brought to light a stretch of an unknown pre-Romanesque building which may help to shed light on the earliest phases of the church of S. Pietro all’Olmo. A legend tells that during Diocletian’s persecutions the tortured but intact body of San Vittore was found, guarded by ferocious lions, in a wooded area called ad ulmos, situated along the road from Milan to Vercellas, as is in effect S. Pietro. It is evocative to imagine that a small Lombard church was later built on the site of the miraculous find. (Roberto Mella Pariani, Laura Simone Zopfi)
Director
- Laura Simone Zopfi - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Lombardia
Team
- Roberto Mella Pariani - Società Lombarda di Archeologia
Research Body
- Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Lombardia
Funding Body
- Comune di Cornaredo
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