The Church and Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, the home of Leonardo's Last Supper, is one of the most beautiful churches in Italy and a reference point point of the Milanese architecture, tied up to the name of Leonardo da Vinci and Donato Bramante. In the ancient Dominican convent refectory is possible to admire the famous "The Last Supper" known also as "The Cenacle" of the Leonardo, initiated in 1495 and finished in 1498.

The 1999 restauration has confirmed all the dramatic expressive strength of this extraordinary masterpiece of the Christian art. The addition of the part absidale or gallery is owed to Donato Bramante. In 1463 the duke of Milan Francesco I Sforza decided to build, on Guiniforte’s Solari project, a Dominican convent and a church on the place where a small chapel devoted to St. Maria delle Grazie was found.

The night of August 15 th 1943, the American Anglo bombardiers struck the church and the convent. The refectory was completely destroyed. Only few walls, among which that of the Cenacle was standing.

Despite the terrible devastations, thanks to the Milaneses spirit of initiative, the church is been able to return to the ancient splendor returning the precious art works that have kept. In the first chapel, the principal attraction is represented by two precious sarcophaguses of Francis Olgiati, of the '500. Also in the fifth chapel a real masterpiece: a parade of angels in plaster. Very beautiful are the benches of the' 500, with inlays of various wood types.

To see is the bramantesca gallery: the extreme grace of the presbytery with his archway. Here is possible to admire one of most beautiful wooden choirs at inlay of the Renaissance. In the beautiful litte cloister adjacent to the gallery, on the door that conducts to the sacristy, is possible to admire a Bramantino’s fresco.