Modica

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

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The listening masks

The masks of Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso have been watching over Via Francesco Crispi for centuries and have witnessed the passage from one era to another, right to the present day. If they could tell us what they have seen and heard, they would prove how much the world has changed.
Never taking their eyes off of passers-by, the listening masks will continue, like they did in the past, to follow anyone who happens to be on Via Crispi.

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The dark railing

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La scura ringhiera

Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso was built with a pure white stone, whose pallor is broken up from time to time by the railings of the elegant wrought iron balconies.
The curved, round-bottomed railings create an interesting contrast that adds vitality to the façade.
The white stone and the protruding black railings together create a special effect caused by the use of two very different colours.

Church of San Giuliano (St. Julian) on Via dei Crociferi: reconstruction

The Staircase of Angels

Prominent façade

One city, three sites

The interior and its masterpieces

The Burgos crucifix

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

A triumph of colour

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Many owners, one palace

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The role of the religious orders in rebuilding the Val di Noto

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

One city, two sites

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giovanni Battista

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A new site for a new city

The theatre of taste

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A long reconstruction

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A small room with a golden entrance

Between white and black

A square as the heart of the city

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Some prestigious works

Modica, a city with ancient origins

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Freedom of worship and the role of the Catholic Church in the diffusion of Baroque

A talking palace

Norman apses

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A half-Baroque church

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The wall comes to life

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Some masterpieces

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Feast days

The Baroque town by the sea

Feasting in Palazzolo

A feast only for Scicli

A city in colour

Searching for colour

The colours of the cathedral

The internal colours

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

The senses tell the story of the church of Santa Maria del Carmelo

From the contrast of the exterior to the internal jubilation of colours

An eagle-shaped city

From International Gothic to present day

A miniature city

A hall for the feasts

A new site for a new church

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

Discovering the mother church

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The city of museums

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Wonderful quick decorations

The disastrous earthquake

A majestic and luminous church

St. Sebastian, so much work!

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Two illustrious patron saints

The chocolate of Modica

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A colourful floor

The façade used as a puppet theatre

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The senses tell the Benedictine Monastery and San NicoIò l’Arena

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

The senses tell the Mother Church of San Nicolò and of the Santissimo Salvatore

A museum to save a tradition

The Maiolica of the staircase

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A symbol for the town

A prominent church

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The church of Carmine

The two churches

New roads for Catania

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

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe