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.

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The Staircase of Angels

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

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

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

The expansion of space and changing reality

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The city within the city

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

City and nature

The church and the monastery

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

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Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The Palazzo dei due mori

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

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

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

A stone garden

The two churches

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

Altars, saints and sculptural works

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

The Church of Madonna della Stella

A heritage of votive works

One city, three sites

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

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

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

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

The city palace

The Church of St. Benedict

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

Reconstruction after the earthquake

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

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

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The palace, the town, the church

The works in the church

A casket of precious works

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

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

Art in the cathedral

The Benedictines’ library

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Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The articulated interior spaces

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

Religious architecture

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The Church of St. Francis

St. Agatha and the candelore

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

The interior and works of art

The Franciscan convent

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The casket of austerity under the great dome

The church and the college

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

Luminous sacred spaces

The eagle-shaped city

The interior of the church: space and colour

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

A story of rebirth

The new roads of the city

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

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

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

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

The Church of St. Paul

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

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

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The art of maiolica

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

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

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

Baroque creativity: recurring themes