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.

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

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

The two churches

The interior of the church: space and colour

A story of rebirth

The interior and works of art

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

City and nature

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

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

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The art of maiolica

A stone garden

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

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

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

The city palace

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

Reconstruction after the earthquake

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

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

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

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

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

One city, three sites

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

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

The Church of St. Francis

The Staircase of Angels

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

The church and the college

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The city within the city

Luminous sacred spaces

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The new roads of the city

The church and the monastery

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

The Church of St. Paul

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

The casket of austerity under the great dome

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

The Church of St. Benedict

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

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

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

The Franciscan convent

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

The Benedictines’ library

Religious architecture

The palace, the town, the church

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

The eagle-shaped city

The Church of Madonna della Stella

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

The expansion of space and changing reality

The Palazzo dei due mori

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

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

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

St. Agatha and the candelore

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

Altars, saints and sculptural works

A heritage of votive works

The articulated interior spaces

A casket of precious works

The works in the church

A unifying project for the city of Catania

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

Art in the cathedral

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

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

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

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