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The senses tell the story of the Church of San Giovanni Evangelista

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Different materials for different temperatures

A church decorated with infinite materials that make it wonderful and precious.
If we could touch the walls and decorations of the church, we would realise how much the temperature of one material can vary compared to another: the glass windows are very cold in winter, but much warmer in summer when heated by the sun; the blue, plaster decorations are much warmer than the marble columns of the aedicula where the statue of the saint is kept; and the saint, made of wood, is warmer than all those materials.

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The church with a blue interior

The church of San Giovanni Evangelista (St. John the Evangelist) features a splendid decoration with blue and gold stuccoes from a renovation in the mid-19th century.
The artist is one Giuseppe Sesta, as can be read from an inscription at the entrance which also bears the date 1861.
The blue of the decoration is like a ribbon that runs around and ties together the church walls, lit up from time to time by the golden stuccoes.
tela crocifisso di Burgos

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

A new site for a new church

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A miniature city

Many owners, one palace

The role of the religious orders in rebuilding the Val di Noto

The Baroque town by the sea

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The senses tell the story of the staircase of Santa Maria del Monte

Freedom of worship and the role of the Catholic Church in the diffusion of Baroque

The senses tell the Mother Church of San Nicolò and of the Santissimo Salvatore

The Staircase of Angels

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Norman apses

The senses tell the Benedictine Monastery and San NicoIò l’Arena

Between white and black

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giovanni Battista

From International Gothic to present day

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The wall comes to life

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Church of San Giuliano (St. Julian) on Via dei Crociferi: reconstruction

A colourful floor

The interior and its masterpieces

A majestic and luminous church

Feasting in Palazzolo

A prominent church

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The senses tell the story of the Badia di Sant’Agata

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

A symbol for the town

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Feast days

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Wonderful quick decorations

New roads for Catania

Some prestigious works

Two illustrious patron saints

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Giuliano ai Crociferi

The Burgos crucifix

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Searching for colour

The church of Carmine

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A long reconstruction

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

An eagle-shaped city

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The city of museums

A half-Baroque church

The internal colours

The two churches

The Maiolica of the staircase

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The chocolate of Modica

Prominent façade

A square as the heart of the city

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A city in colour

A museum to save a tradition

A new site for a new city

The colours of the cathedral

Discovering the mother church

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A small room with a golden entrance

Limestone, the colour of harmony

One city, two sites

The theatre of taste

One city, three sites

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A triumph of colour

A feast only for Scicli

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A talking palace

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Giovanni Evangelista

The senses tell the story of the church of Santa Maria del Carmelo

St. Sebastian, so much work!

From the contrast of the exterior to the internal jubilation of colours

A hall for the feasts

Some masterpieces

The disastrous earthquake

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento