Church of Gesu'
Timetable
Weekdays: 8.30-11.30
Sundays and holidays: 8.30-13.00 / 16.30-18.00.
Prices
Free Entry
Accessible with assistance to people with disabilities.
Built for the Jesuits in 1570 to the design ofthe architect Alberto Schiatti, the church has a simple and austere brick façade, divided into two sections and with three portals decorated with marble.
The interior, lacking any wall paintings as the result of a fire, conserves a series of important works of art. On the left-hand wall of the entrance is the 15th-century work by Guido Mazzoni Mourning Over Christ. In the apse stands the monumental Mausoleum of Barbara of Austria, Alfonso II d’Este’s second wife, realised at the end of the 1500s by Francesco Casella. The bust of the duchess is apparently marked by great realism.
Dogs are not allowed.
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