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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.

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San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

St. Agatha and the candelore

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

City and nature

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Religious architecture

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

The expansion of space and changing reality

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

The palace, the town, the church

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

The Staircase of Angels

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

The interior and works of art

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

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

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

The church and the monastery

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

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

Art in the cathedral

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A stone garden

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

Altars, saints and sculptural works

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Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

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

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

One city, three sites

The art of maiolica

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The Church of St. Francis

The Franciscan convent

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

A casket of precious works

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

Luminous sacred spaces

The Benedictines’ library

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The Church of Madonna della Stella

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

The Church of St. Benedict

A heritage of votive works

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

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

The church and the college

The works in the church

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

The Palazzo dei due mori

A story of rebirth

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

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

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

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

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

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The interior of the church: space and colour

The eagle-shaped city

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

The new roads of the city

Reconstruction after the earthquake

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The city within the city

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

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

The Church of St. Paul

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

The two churches

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

The articulated interior spaces

The casket of austerity under the great dome

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

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The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

The city palace

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha