Chiesa della Madonnina in Prato, Baroque church in Varese, Italy.

Chiesa della Madonnina in Prato is a Baroque church in Varese featuring a gray stone facade from Viggiù and a single nave with a barrel vault ceiling. The building is marked by a bell tower and displays frescoes integrated into its architectural framework.

The church is first documented in 1567, when it had a Greek cross plan and a rustic facade. Between 1678 and 1686 it was rebuilt with a Latin cross plan and a new Baroque facade. In 1722 Giovanni Antonio Speroni added the bell tower, and in 1742 the sacristy was enlarged. A full restoration in 1995–1996 repaired water damage and removed later additions.

The name "in Prato" recalls the meadow where a votive shrine once stood at a country crossroads outside Varese's walls. Cardinal Andrea Carlo Ferrari noted in his 1899 and 1907 visits that the church was dilapidated and even deconsecrated, yet popular veneration of the Madonna fresco in the apse continued. That late-Gothic fresco, a Madonna enthroned with the Child holding a globus cruciger, was moved from the apse to the left transept chapel in 1930, replacing a Procaccini painting.

The entrance is through a low portico whose vault is frescoed with the Deposition of Jesus. The single nave and barrel vault give clear sightlines to the main altar, set far back toward the apse, and to the two transept chapels. The sacristy "cube" and bell tower flank the transept arms.

The 1928 decorator Pinzauti crudely retouched the interior paintings, altering details and moving some scenes using the strappo technique. Water infiltrations between the tiburio and the dome had also damaged the interior before the 1995-1996 restoration by architect Marco Giani removed these additions.