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.

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

City and nature

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

The Church of St. Paul

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

Art in the cathedral

A heritage of votive works

A casket of precious works

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

The church and the college

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

The art of maiolica

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

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

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

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

The city within the city

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

The church and the monastery

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The Staircase of Angels

The casket of austerity under the great dome

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The two churches

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

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

The interior and works of art

The articulated interior spaces

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

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

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

The expansion of space and changing reality

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

Luminous sacred spaces

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

Religious architecture

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

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

A stone garden

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The Church of St. Francis

The interior of the church: space and colour

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

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

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

The city palace

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

Reconstruction after the earthquake

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

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

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

The palace, the town, the church

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

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The Palazzo dei due mori

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

The Church of St. Benedict

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

A story of rebirth

St. Agatha and the candelore

Altars, saints and sculptural works

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

The eagle-shaped city

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

The Franciscan convent

The new roads of the city

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

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The works in the church

The Benedictines’ library

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

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

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

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

The Church of Madonna della Stella

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

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

One city, three sites