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 Church of Madonna della Stella

The church and the college

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

The Palazzo dei due mori

Altars, saints and sculptural works

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

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

A casket of precious works

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

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

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The church and the monastery

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

The Franciscan convent

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The expansion of space and changing reality

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The Benedictines’ library

The eagle-shaped city

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

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

The art of maiolica

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The new roads of the city

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

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

City and nature

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

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

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

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

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

Reconstruction after the earthquake

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

The city palace

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

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The Church of St. Francis

Luminous sacred spaces

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

The works in the church

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

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

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

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

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

The Church of St. Benedict

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

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

A stone garden

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The Church of St. Paul

The Staircase of Angels

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

A heritage of votive works

The casket of austerity under the great dome

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

A story of rebirth

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

The articulated interior spaces

Religious architecture

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

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The interior and works of art

Art in the cathedral

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

The interior of the church: space and colour

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

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

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

The two churches

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

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

One city, three sites

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

St. Agatha and the candelore

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

The city within the city

The palace, the town, the church

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin