Luogo - Religious building

Chiesa del Gesù

Where Largo Gesuiti, 2, Tropea (Vibo Valentia)

The Church today of the Redemptorist Fathers, is where between the seventh and eighth centuries was built the St. Nicholas's Church (known as the Catholic) of Greek-Byzantine rite. When, in 1594, the Jesuits settled there to build their College, the Church was already in poor condition. It was decided to build a new one, which kept the Greek cross plant, but said the Baroque era. The project, developed by Carlo Quercia in 1663, provided for the coverage of the central dome and the side arms with barrel vaults. The Church has undergone several interventions that have not changed the original configuration, except for the height of the facade reduced to the damage sustained in the earthquake of 1905. Interesting is the portal in granite, on which there is a plaque in memory of the passage, in 1767, of the Minister of the Kingdom of Naples, Bernardo Tanucci. Inside are works of great value, as the eighteenth-century altar of St. Alphonsus and the monumental altar of St. Joseph, in polychrome marble inlays, as well as works by painters of the '700 Neapolitan school and the large canvas depicting the Nativity, by the tropean painter Giuseppe Grimaldi.

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