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The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

hearing
The mermaids’ song and the instruments’ music

The characteristic corbels of these balconies feature depictions of mermaids, musicians and musical instruments, including maracas, a flute and a trumpet.
Staring at us playfully from above, this small orchestra seems to draw our attention and invite us to enter the evocative building.
mensole sirena

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

A heritage of votive works

The Church of Madonna della Stella

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

The casket of austerity under the great dome

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The Staircase of Angels

A casket of precious works

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

Luminous sacred spaces

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

The interior and works of art

The Franciscan convent

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The city within the city

The church of San Nicolò l’Arena: the majesty of an unfinished beauty

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

A stone garden

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The palace, the town, the church

The Church of St. Paul

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

Art in the cathedral

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

The Duomo di San Giorgio (Cathedral of St. George)

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The church and the monastery

The Church of St. Francis

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

The expansion of space and changing reality

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The Church of St. Benedict

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

A story of rebirth

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

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

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

Religious architecture

One city, three sites

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

The church and the college

The senses tell the Benedictine Monastery and the Church of San Nicolò l’Arena

Piazza Duomo, the elephant fountain, the heart of the city

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

The Palazzo dei due mori

Verticality and dynamism of the façade of the Church of San Carlo

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Carlo and the former Jesuit college

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The interior of the church: space and colour

The art of maiolica

The articulated interior spaces

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

St. Agatha and the candelore

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

Views denied, views conquered: the power of the devout Benedictines

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

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

The freedom of worship and the Catholic Church’s role in the diffusion of Baroque

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

The Benedictines’ library

The neo-Gothic seminary chapel: symbols, light and space

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

The city palace

The Badia di Sant’Agata (St. Agatha’s Abbey)

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

Altars, saints and sculptural works

Geometry and wonder in civic architecture in the Baroque of the Val di Noto

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

City and nature

The new roads of the city

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

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

Barresi-Branciforte: the lords of the fiefdom and the modernisation of the town

The senses tell the story of the Sanctuary Church of Santa Maria della Stella

The eagle-shaped city

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

The works in the church

The two churches

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

Reconstruction after the earthquake