The current building of the Church of Jesus and Mary is a 20th-century reconstruction, after the destruction of the old church during the 1908 earthquake. The crypt preserves the so-called "varettes", papier-mâché figures led in procession on Good Friday.
The church of San Giorgio al Corso was built as a parish church at the end of the 16th century, but after its complete destruction by the 1908 earthquake, it was rebuilt in 1935. On the side of the church are the archaeological remains of a religious structure of the medieval city of Reggio.
The Ottimati Church is an old Byzantine-Norman church built around the 10th century. The church takes its name from the former crypt of Ottimati, which was built as a support structure for the church in Normandy (12th century). Abandoned in 1767 following the suppression of the Jesuit order that occupied it, the church received the protection of Ferdinand I of Bourbon in 1780. After having been deeply damaged by the earthquakes of 1783 and 1908, the church was rebuilt in the first half of the 20th century.
The current Cathedral of Reggio Calabria was built in 1908, in the neo-Romanesque style, after having been completely destroyed by the Messina earthquake. The first church was built around 300 AD on the ruins of a Greek Apollo temple.
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