High church of Saint Magnus, Renaissance minor basilica in Legnano, Italy

The Basilica of San Magno is Legnano's principal church, built from 1504 to 1513 in a Lombard Renaissance style attributed to a design by Donato Bramante. Its cream facade with reddish-brown brick trim has a central arched portal with a round window above, flanked by two smaller doors, and a tall brick bell tower with a clock face stands to its right. Behind the facade rises a polygonal drum topped by an octagonal lantern with a domed roof and cross.

The cornerstone was laid on 4 May 1504 on the site of the collapsed Romanesque church of San Salvatore, with the Lampugnani and Vismara families as main donors. Walls were finished on 6 June 1513, but Swiss troops sacked Legnano in December 1511 and burned the exterior scaffolding. Work paused from 1516 to 1523; the design is attributed to Donato Bramante, who died in 1514.

The church is dedicated to Magnus of Milan, archbishop from 518 to 530. Inside, the main vault carries frescoes by Gian Giacomo Lampugnani, the main chapel frescoes are by Bernardino Lanino, and the chapel of San Pietro Martire keeps remains of 16th-century paintings by Evangelista Luini. The polyptych by Bernardino Luini is held to be his best work.

The main entrance faces west onto Piazza San Magno, where Legnano's cemetery stood until 1808; the doorway was moved to this side in 1610. The interior is entered through this west portal, so visitors arriving from the piazza reach the nave directly. The bell tower, added between 1752 and 1791, stands beside the facade.

The bell tower was built between 1752 and 1791, more than two centuries after the church itself was finished in 1513. Its clock face and brick shaft rise to the right of the cream facade, above the octagonal lantern that crowns the dome.