Chiesa di San Sepolcro

This guide to Chiesa di San Sepolcro in Milan traces two events sharing the same square: a copy of Christ's tomb built into the crypt in the eleventh century, and a March nineteen nineteen meeting upstairs where a restless journalist named Benito Mussolini founded the movement that became Italian fascism. It follows the building's re-dedications after the Crusades and the claim, from Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks and Saint Charles Borromeo, that this is Milan's true center. Look for the underground replica of the Holy Sepulchre, still open to walk into today.