The remarkable, creepy stories that hide behind the pretty facades of Milan’s churches.
Milan is renowned for its stately historic churches, some of which date back more than 1,000 years. Tourists travel from across the world to admire the grandeur of their architecture and interior design, but many would be unaware of the dark tales that lurk within these religious buildings.
Controversial serpents, miraculous discoveries, Black Death chaos, desiccated human hearts, sex-crazed tyrants, walls made from human skulls, and chapels of the dead: these are some of the remarkable, creepy stories that hide behind the pretty facades of Milan’s churches.