Catholic chapel of Mercy is standing in the centre of the Cours Saleya, the main pedestrian street of the Old town. Around always roars market, people see the shelves or sitting at the cafe tables. Some admire the Sunny yellow building of the chapel, but not inside it. They have a lot to lose: this temple is a universally recognized masterpiece of architecture in the Baroque style. Critics referred to his ten most beautiful Baroque buildings in the world.

The Church, dedicated first to Saint Caetano, built between 1747 and 1770 for years on the site of a former salt warehouse of the king of Sardinia. Then the Cours Saleya was the center of the houses of wealthy people, the land here was a road, and this explains why the chapel, on the one hand, so small and so beautiful.

To design the building and supervise construction commissioned by the Turin architect Antonio Bernardo the Vuitton, already built by that time several famous churches in Italy. The Vuitton was a pupil of the great architect of the Baroque era Filippo Juvara and inherited his love for this style. Although space was limited, and to erect the bell tower failed, the chapel of Mercy with flowing lines of its facade, elliptical nave and rich decor now represents the Baroque style of Piedmont.

The luxurious interior of the temple, settled mainly in blue-grey tones, is a real feast for lovers of religious architecture: a plurality of curved lines characteristic of Baroque frescoes, gilding, marble columns. In sakristii survived two masterpieces of artists de nice "virgin of Mercy" Jean Mirela (1429) and "virgin of Mercy" by Louis Brea (1515 year).

To save this beauty, it took almost a million Euro in so much cost of full restoration and reconstruction of the chapel after the walls of the building went up at an alarming cracks due to nearby construction of the underground car Park. Saved the chapel was solemnly opened in 2010, and three years later was restored and the authority of the XIX century by the Swiss masters of the Florentine Martell.

Despite its small size, the chapel of Mercy is actively involved in the cultural life of the region. Acoustics in here are beautiful, so are often concerts. In addition, the chapel takes the exhibition in the framework of the international Biennale of Artistic ceramics of Vallauris" (the small town of Vallauris, where in the fifties of the twentieth century Pablo Picasso learned how to work with ceramics, is still famous for its products).