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.
dettaglio canne organo organo

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

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

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

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

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

One city, three sites

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The interior of the church: space and colour

A stone garden

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

The church and the monastery

The city within the city

Altars, saints and sculptural works

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

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

Luminous sacred spaces

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

The casket of austerity under the great dome

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

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

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

The Staircase of Angels

The two churches

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

Reconstruction after the earthquake

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The works in the church

The interior and works of art

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

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

A heritage of votive works

A casket of precious works

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

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The Palazzo dei due mori

The Church of Madonna della Stella

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

City and nature

Art in the cathedral

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The eagle-shaped city

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

The Church of St. Francis

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

The Franciscan convent

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

A story of rebirth

The city palace

Religious architecture

The expansion of space and changing reality

St. Agatha and the candelore

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

The Church of St. Paul

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

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

The Benedictines’ library

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

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

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

The church and the college

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The new roads of the city

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

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

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

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

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The palace, the town, the church

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The articulated interior spaces

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The art of maiolica

The Church of St. Benedict

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A unifying project for the city of Catania