Modica

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

sight
Staircases and panoramas

The staircase of San Giorgio, besides being an important link between the upper and lower cities of Modica, is one of the best panoramic places where you can fully appreciate the city’s urban structure. A scenographic point that establishes a visual union between the two ridges where the city stands.
Scalinate e panorami

hearing
Melodies from the church

On a visit to the Cathedral of San Giorgio you can still appreciate the notes from the four keyboards, eighty stops and three thousand pipes of the monumental church organ designed by Casimiro Allieri, which still works today and is used for the most important liturgical celebrations. It is an instrument with a scenic architectural structure and exceptional sound quality that offers a sensory experience still appreciated today in a very sacred place.
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Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

A casket of precious works

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

A stone garden

The two churches

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

A story of rebirth

The Church of St. Benedict

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

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

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 casket of austerity under the great dome

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

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

City and nature

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The Benedictines’ library

The Palazzo dei due mori

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

The interior of the church: space and colour

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

The articulated interior spaces

The palace, the town, the church

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

Art in the cathedral

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

Reconstruction after the earthquake

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

Luminous sacred spaces

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

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

The city palace

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

The interior and works of art

The Church of St. Francis

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The eagle-shaped city

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

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

The works in the church

A heritage of votive works

One city, three sites

The expansion of space and changing reality

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The Church of St. Paul

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

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The art of maiolica

The church and the monastery

The Staircase of Angels

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

The city within the city

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

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

St. Agatha and the candelore

Religious architecture

The Church of Madonna della Stella

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

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

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

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

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

The new roads of the city

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

The Franciscan convent

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

Altars, saints and sculptural works

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

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

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

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

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception