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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

A long reconstruction

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

An eagle-shaped city

From International Gothic to present day

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

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

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The Maiolica of the staircase

A talking palace

A feast only for Scicli

The chocolate of Modica

A square as the heart of the city

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Some prestigious works

A triumph of colour

One city, two sites

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The theatre of taste

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

Discovering the mother church

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A new site for a new city

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The colours of the cathedral

The Baroque town by the sea

A small room with a golden entrance

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A half-Baroque church

A hall for the feasts

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The wall comes to life

A city in colour

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Some masterpieces

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

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

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A majestic and luminous church

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The disastrous earthquake

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

Searching for colour

Two illustrious patron saints

A museum to save a tradition

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

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Many owners, one palace

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A colourful floor

Prominent façade

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

A prominent church

The church of Carmine

New roads for Catania

Between white and black

A new site for a new church

The Burgos crucifix

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Feasting in Palazzolo

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The Staircase of Angels

A symbol for the town

The interior and its masterpieces

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

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The two churches

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Modica, a city with ancient origins

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

Norman apses

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

A miniature city

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Wonderful quick decorations

Feast days

The internal colours

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

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

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

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The city of museums

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

One city, three sites

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

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

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

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

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto