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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 two churches

Between white and black

Some masterpieces

Prominent façade

The Burgos crucifix

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

Searching for colour

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A museum to save a tradition

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

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

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A miniature city

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Wonderful quick decorations

Norman apses

Modica, a city with ancient origins

New roads for Catania

A small room with a golden entrance

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The Staircase of Angels

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

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Limestone, the colour of harmony

A long reconstruction

Two illustrious patron saints

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

A talking palace

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

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San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

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The façade used as a puppet theatre

Many owners, one palace

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

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The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The theatre of taste

A hall for the feasts

One city, two sites

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Feast days

The internal colours

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Discovering the mother church

A colourful floor

The church of Carmine

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The city of museums

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

Feasting in Palazzolo

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The disastrous earthquake

A new site for a new city

The colours of the cathedral

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

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Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

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The Baroque town by the sea

The Maiolica of the staircase

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

A new site for a new church

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

From International Gothic to present day

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The wall comes to life

St. Sebastian, so much work!

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

Some prestigious works

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

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

The interior and its masterpieces

The chocolate of Modica

A triumph of colour

A symbol for the town

Connections with other UNESCO sites

One city, three sites

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

An eagle-shaped city

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A square as the heart of the city

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

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A half-Baroque church

A majestic and luminous church

A city in colour

A prominent church

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