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The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

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Furnishing and innovation

The furniture used to furnish the houses of wealthy families followed the fashion of the time.
Louis XV style spread between 1720 and 1760 and was a revolution in furnishing that reflected the luxurious and refined lifestyle of the French nobility.
It was a period of great innovation in woodworking techniques.
There was a preference for slender, light and highly decorated structures inspired by the Italian and German Rococo.

The Church of St. Francis

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The expansion of space and changing reality

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

One city, three sites

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

City and nature

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

Reconstruction after the earthquake

The interior of the church: space and colour

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

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

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

Altars, saints and sculptural works

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

The Church of Madonna della Stella

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

The Franciscan convent

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

The church and the monastery

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The Church of St. Paul

The Staircase of Angels

The palace, the town, the church

A story of rebirth

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

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

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

The articulated interior spaces

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The Benedictines’ library

The new roads of the city

Religious architecture

A unifying project for the city of Catania

Luminous sacred spaces

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

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

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

A heritage of votive works

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

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

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

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

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

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

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The church and the college

The interior and works of art

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

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

St. Agatha and the candelore

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

The casket of austerity under the great dome

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 illusion of light and the decorative splendour

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

A stone garden

A casket of precious works

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

The Church of St. Benedict

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

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

The works in the church

The city palace

The art of maiolica

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

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

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

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The eagle-shaped city

The two churches

The city within the city

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

Art in the cathedral

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

The Palazzo dei due mori

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

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