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 Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The Church of St. Francis

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

Reconstruction after the earthquake

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

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

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

Luminous sacred spaces

The works in the church

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

The city palace

The art of maiolica

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

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

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

The Church of St. Benedict

St. Agatha and the candelore

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

The eagle-shaped city

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

The Franciscan convent

A casket of precious works

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

Art in the cathedral

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

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

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

The casket of austerity under the great dome

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

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

The city within the city

The church and the monastery

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

The Staircase of Angels

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

Religious architecture

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The articulated interior spaces

A heritage of votive works

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

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

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The church and the college

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

The new roads of the city

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

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

The Benedictines’ library

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

A story of rebirth

The Palazzo dei due mori

The palace, the town, the church

The Church of Madonna della Stella

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

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

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

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

The interior of the church: space and colour

One city, three sites

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

City and nature

The expansion of space and changing reality

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

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The two churches

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The Church of St. Paul

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The interior and works of art

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

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

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

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

Altars, saints and sculptural works

A stone garden