Parish Church of Saint Joseph Baptist in Cervo

Imposing work by G.B. Marvaldi, who began designing it in 1686, it is one of the most representative buildings of Ligurian baroque style. The church rises through a wide staircase on the churchyard that opens up as a vast terrace overlooking the sea and has a spectacular eighteenth-century concave façade with a double order of composite pilasters ending with a mixtilinear pediment and it is adorned with precious stuccos forming original mirrors. The slender bell tower is a late work by Francesco Carrega of 1773. The interior, consisting of a rectangle with rounded corners in which five chapels open on each side, paired with an order of pilasters, the altars and precious stuccos date back to the eighteenth-century. In a niche between the second and third altar, there is the Family of Saint Joseph, a polychrome wooden artwork attributed to Maragliano. The presbytery is frescoed by Francesco Carrega. The church is called “Chiesa dei Corallini” (Church of Corals) because the construction would have been financed also with the offers of coral fishermen, an activity that disappeared after a terrible storm in the early eighteenth century.

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