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 two churches

The Staircase of Angels

The church and the monastery

Art in the cathedral

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The Church of St. Benedict

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

The Church of Madonna della Stella

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

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

A casket of precious works

The new roads of the city

The interior and works of art

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

The casket of austerity under the great dome

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

The palace, the town, the church

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

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

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

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

The expansion of space and changing reality

The eagle-shaped city

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

Altars, saints and sculptural works

The interior of the church: space and colour

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

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

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

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

City and nature

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

A stone garden

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

The articulated interior spaces

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The Church of St. Paul

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

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

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The Franciscan convent

The Palazzo dei due mori

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

A heritage of votive works

The Church of St. Francis

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

A story of rebirth

The works in the church

The city palace

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

Religious architecture

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

St. Agatha and the candelore

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

The art of maiolica

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

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

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

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

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The city within the city

A unifying project for the city of Catania

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

Reconstruction after the earthquake

The church and the college

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

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

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

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

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

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The Benedictines’ library

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

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

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

Luminous sacred spaces

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour