The Church of San Martino is a Catholic religious building located in Cinisello Balsamo, in Piazza Soncino, overlooking Villa Casati Stampa.

An initial idea for the location fell on Villa Casati, but it met with opposition from vestrymen and the fear of excessive debt.

[2] A committee was formed to screen the project, which was entrusted to engineer Claudio Latocca[3] and carried out with the collaboration of architects Olgiati and Sartorio.De Carli (1994, p. 141) The work was supported through collections and offerings of gold from the faithful.

The initial project also included the construction of a "Parish Works Center," connected to the church through a portico, and a bell tower, both of which were never built.

[8] In 1997 the new parish priest Fr Felice Carnaghi provided for the re-roofing of the church, and the following year he undertook a new renovation of the electrical and lighting systems and of the interior.

With this intervention, the original concrete ogives supporting the roof were hidden.De Carli (1994, p. 141) To complete the liturgical adaptation to the conciliar prescriptions, the baptismal font was placed to the right of the altar, eliminating the ambon.

[8] In 2005, in conjunction with the redevelopment of Soncino Square, which was repaved with porphyry slabs, new paving of the churchyard and the gate closing the pronaos were made.

On May 27, 2007, artist Mike Ciafaloni[10] donated to the parish a fresco, called Love, Art and Reason,[11] which was placed on the wall flanking the facade.

[16] On Christmas Eve, canvases donated by painter Magdalena Grandi depicting four angels and placed behind the high altar were inaugurated.

The side facades feature reinforced concrete prism structural pillars with terracotta cladding,De Carli (1994, p. 141) and ribbon windows running around the entire perimeter of the building.

The main facade is gabled, in the middle part slightly set back and characterized by a pronaos, closed by a gate, defined by a large corbel and surmounted by three large longitudinal windows, at the entrances.De Carli (1994, p. 141) On the right side of the church is the parish house with offices, while on the left side is a building for parish works; all properties are set in a garden.

[9] On the boundary wall of the parish property facing the churchyard is the fresco Love, Art and Reason, created by Mike Ciafaloni.

In the upper part of the masonry is housed a band of wood-effect coated reinforced concrete, which runs around the entire perimeter of the liturgical hall.

[9] The crypt houses a seventh painting from the cycle of the life of St. Martin of Tours, the first in chronological order created by the painter Magdalena Grandi: initially hung along the liturgical hall, it was later replaced by a remake of the same and moved to the lower floor.

[20] Carino's body was kept in Forli Cathedral until November 4, 1964, when at the interest of parish priest Don Carcano it was reassembled in a simulacrum and clothed in the habit of the Dominicans, together with the head and the remaining relics (kept since 1934 in the old church);[note 1][21] everything was kept inside a metal and glass urn and placed under the altar of the crypt.