Italy Guide
Liguria
Gesù church
The Gesù church Opening time: daily 7am– noon & 4–5.30pmPrice: free, on Piazza Matteotti, was designed by Pellegrino Tibaldi at the end of the sixteenth century and contains a mass of marble and gilt stucco and some fine Baroque paintings, including Guido Reni's Assumption in the right aisle and two works by Rubens: Miracles of St Ignatius on the left and Circumcision on the high altar. An alley between the two leads through to Piazza de Ferrari, overlooked by a statue of Garibaldi in front of the grand facade of the Carlo Felice opera house.