Modica

A Nobel Prize in Modica

palazzo quasimodoBetween period buildings, cathedrals and churches, Modica offers its citizens and tourists a place of memory.
This idea comes from the bond that exists between the Hyblaean city and an illustrious poet. On 20 August 1901, Salvatore Quasimodo was born in Modica. He was one of the most important poets and translators of Italian literature.
Quasimodo wrote works of great value that led him to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959.
Hence the idea to restore the house where the poet was born and turn it into a birthplace museum dedicated to him.
The Museo Casa Natale Salvatore Quasimodo (Salvatore Quasimodo Birthplace Museum) offers the chance to see the room where the Italian poet saw the first light of day, and much more! In fact, there are also collections of many of the objects that belonged to Salvatore Quasimodo, including some photographs and furniture from his Milan studio.
This is an opportunity to get to know an illustrious poet and come into contact with the reality of a bygone era that is increasingly distant from us. Targa Salvatore Quasimodo

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The internal colours

Connections with other UNESCO sites

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

A half-Baroque church

A new site for a new city

A triumph of colour

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The role of the religious orders in rebuilding the Val di Noto

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giovanni Battista

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

From the contrast of the exterior to the internal jubilation of colours

The Burgos crucifix

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A square as the heart of the city

An eagle-shaped city

The theatre of taste

A prominent church

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A city in colour

The wall comes to life

The interior and its masterpieces

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The two churches

A symbol for the town

The colours of the cathedral

The senses tell the Benedictine Monastery and San NicoIò l’Arena

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Prominent façade

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

A feast only for Scicli

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Some masterpieces

The senses tell the story of the church of Santa Maria del Carmelo

A long reconstruction

The chocolate of Modica

A Nobel Prize in Modica

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

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

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

A majestic and luminous church

A talking palace

A colourful floor

Wonderful quick decorations

The disastrous earthquake

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Two illustrious patron saints

Between white and black

Discovering the mother church

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Freedom of worship and the role of the Catholic Church in the diffusion of Baroque

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Feast days

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

One city, three sites

Searching for colour

A small room with a golden entrance

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A museum to save a tradition

The Maiolica of the staircase

One city, two sites

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The city of museums

Feasting in Palazzolo

Norman apses

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The church of Carmine

The Baroque town by the sea

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The Staircase of Angels

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Some prestigious works

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

From International Gothic to present day

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

A miniature city

Church of San Giuliano (St. Julian) on Via dei Crociferi: reconstruction

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The senses tell the Mother Church of San Nicolò and of the Santissimo Salvatore

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

New roads for Catania

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

A hall for the feasts

A new site for a new church

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Many owners, one palace

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph