Église Sainte-Croix

The Église Sainte-Croix is marked by a single steeple and a pedimented facade that sets it apart from the surrounding architecture. Built between seventeen seventy-seven and seventeen eighty, it was commissioned by King Victor-Amadeus the Third of Piedmont-Sardinia to serve as the religious center of a planned town intended to compete with Geneva. Because the town of Carouge was designed to be a Mediterranean, Catholic alternative to its Protestant neighbor, the church carries a distinctly non-Genevan style.