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The Saint-Genest church is located on a square which extends rue Lamartine, along the Quai Alsace Lorraine. Rebuilt from 1625, its sobriety reflects the classic taste of the beginning of the Counter-Reformation observed in Rome a hundred years earlier.
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The facade is arranged on two levels with superimposed orders, separated by a cornice, with a frieze with triglyphs and metopes. A rounded pediment crowns the whole.
In the central niche is installed (since 1869), the statue of Gérard Tenque, founder of the Hospitallers of St-Jean-de-Jérusalem and born in Martigues in 1040. The statue was sculpted in the years 1880-1890 by a mason from Martigues, Nazaire Bernard.
The west facade was renovated in 2019.
The interior of the church is...
In the central niche is installed (since 1869), the statue of Gérard Tenque, founder of the Hospitallers of St-Jean-de-Jérusalem and born in Martigues in 1040. The statue was sculpted in the years 1880-1890 by a mason from Martigues, Nazaire Bernard.
The west facade was renovated in 2019.
The interior of the church is...
Services
Car park
- Accessibility
- Reception staff sensitized to the reception of people with disabilities
- Equipment
- Parking nearby
Location
Contact Eglise Saint Geniès
- paroissedemartigues.over-blog.com
Environment
- In centre of town
- Town location
- Close to a public transportation
- Pedestrian area
- Waterside
- Bus stop < 500 m
- Overview on river
- Pier within 500 m
