Santi Nazaro e Celso, Brescia

The church of Santi Nazaro e Celso is located on Corso Giacomo Matteotti, at the intersection with via Fratelli Bronzetti, in Brescia, Lombardy, Italy.

Originally a church was found at approximately the same site in 1222, in an area that was soon enclosed by enlarged city walls.

A major reconstruction began in 1746, by designs of abate Zinelli, and completed in 1781, leading to the statue-topped neoclassical facade we see today.

[1] It was interrupted in 1769 by an accidental explosion of a powder magazine at nearby Porta Nazaro.

The entrance has a bust of one of the patrons of the reconstruction, the bishop of Modone, Alessandro Fe.

Moretto, Coronation of the Virgin with Saints Michael Archangel, Joseph, Francis of Assisi, and Nicola of Bari