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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

The works in the church

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The interior of the church: space and colour

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

The Church of St. Francis

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

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

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The church and the college

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

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

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

The articulated interior spaces

The Church of Madonna della Stella

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

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

A Nobel Prize in Modica

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

St. Agatha and the candelore

The art of maiolica

The city palace

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

The eagle-shaped city

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The Palazzo dei due mori

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

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

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

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

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

Art in the cathedral

The expansion of space and changing reality

The Church of St. Benedict

The casket of austerity under the great dome

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

The church and the monastery

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

Luminous sacred spaces

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

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

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

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The two churches

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

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

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

A story of rebirth

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

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The Church of St. Paul

A stone garden

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The Staircase of Angels

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

City and nature

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

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

Religious architecture

Altars, saints and sculptural works

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

A heritage of votive works

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

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

The palace, the town, the church

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

The new roads of the city

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The Franciscan convent

One city, three sites

Reconstruction after the earthquake

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

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

The city within the city

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

The interior and works of art

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

A casket of precious works

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The Benedictines’ library