Church of Gesù Nuovo
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A blank, pyramid-studded stone front — left over from the palace it used to be — hiding an interior of near-total baroque saturation. The contrast is the whole point and it registers in about a second. On Spaccanapoli, opposite Santa Chiara's tiled cloister.
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