Noto

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

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Corbels and masks

Baroque civic architecture is marked by some strongly characteristic elements, including the corbels that support the balconies.
The stone elements embedded in the wall were worked by master stonemasons into the most imaginative shapes.

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Rococo fabrics and furnishings

The house had to reflect the importance of the family that lived there, so it was essential to oversee all the details in the interior decoration, especially in the reception rooms.
The rooms were decorated in the French Rococo style in vogue at the time, especially in the choice of furniture and precious fabrics.

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

Reconstruction after the earthquake

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

The Franciscan convent

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

Altars, saints and sculptural works

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

A unifying project for the city of Catania

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

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

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

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

A story of rebirth

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

The church and the college

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

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

The Palazzo dei due mori

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The works in the church

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

A heritage of votive works

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

One city, three sites

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

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

Luminous sacred spaces

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

The Benedictines’ library

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

The church and the monastery

The Church of Madonna della Stella

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

The Church of St. Francis

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

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

City and nature

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

The art of maiolica

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

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

Art in the cathedral

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

The casket of austerity under the great dome

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

The city palace

The Church of St. Benedict

The interior of the church: space and colour

The palace, the town, the church

A stone garden

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

The Church of St. Paul

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

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

The expansion of space and changing reality

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

The city within the city

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

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

A casket of precious works

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The two churches

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

The articulated interior spaces

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The new roads of the city

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

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

Religious architecture

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

The interior and works of art

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

St. Agatha and the candelore

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

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

The eagle-shaped city

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The Staircase of Angels