Noto

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 senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

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

The works in the church

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

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

A story of rebirth

The two churches

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

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

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

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

The Church of St. Francis

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

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

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

The city palace

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The city within the city

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

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

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

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

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

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

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

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

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

Reconstruction after the earthquake

The church and the college

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

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

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

The Palazzo dei due mori

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

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

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

St. Agatha and the candelore

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The art of maiolica

Luminous sacred spaces

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

Art in the cathedral

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

The Franciscan convent

The Church of St. Benedict

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

The new roads of the city

The church and the monastery

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The expansion of space and changing reality

The palace, the town, the church

One city, three sites

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

The interior of the church: space and colour

A unifying project for the city of Catania

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

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

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

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

The casket of austerity under the great dome

Altars, saints and sculptural works

The Staircase of Angels

The Benedictines’ library

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The Church of St. Paul

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

Religious architecture

City and nature

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

The eagle-shaped city

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

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

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

A casket of precious works

A stone garden

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

The articulated interior spaces

A heritage of votive works

The Church of Madonna della Stella

The interior and works of art