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.

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

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

A heritage of votive works

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

The interior of the church: space and colour

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

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

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The interior and works of art

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

The eagle-shaped city

The Church of St. Benedict

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

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

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

The city within the city

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

The palace, the town, the church

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

Altars, saints and sculptural works

The Church of Madonna della Stella

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

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

The Palazzo dei due mori

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

The Franciscan convent

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

The two churches

The expansion of space and changing reality

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

Religious architecture

A story of rebirth

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

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

The Benedictines’ library

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The art of maiolica

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The Church of St. Paul

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

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

The new roads of the city

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The Staircase of Angels

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

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

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

A Nobel Prize in Modica

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

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

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

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

The church and the college

St. Agatha and the candelore

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

Reconstruction after the earthquake

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The city palace

The works in the church

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

The Church of St. Francis

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

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

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

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

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

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

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

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

A casket of precious works

One city, three sites

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

Art in the cathedral

The articulated interior spaces

The church and the monastery

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

The casket of austerity under the great dome

Luminous sacred spaces

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

City and nature

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

A stone garden

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

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

The senses tell the Church of San Michele