Noto

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

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Corbels and masks

Baroque civic architecture is marked by some strongly characteristic elements, including the corbels that support the balconies.
The stone elements embedded in the wall were worked by master stonemasons into the most imaginative shapes.

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Rococo fabrics and furnishings

The house had to reflect the importance of the family that lived there, so it was essential to oversee all the details in the interior decoration, especially in the reception rooms.
The rooms were decorated in the French Rococo style in vogue at the time, especially in the choice of furniture and precious fabrics.

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

City and nature

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

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

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The palace, the town, the church

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The two churches

Religious architecture

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

A stone garden

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

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

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The Church of St. Francis

A heritage of votive works

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

Luminous sacred spaces

The interior and works of art

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

The articulated interior spaces

The new roads of the city

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

The church and the monastery

The Church of St. Paul

The Staircase of Angels

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

The city palace

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The city within the city

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

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

The Church of St. Benedict

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

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

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

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

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

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

The Palazzo dei due mori

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The interior of the church: space and colour

The eagle-shaped city

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

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

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

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

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

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

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The Benedictines’ library

The Church of Madonna della Stella

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

The casket of austerity under the great dome

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

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

One city, three sites

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

St. Agatha and the candelore

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

The church and the college

A story of rebirth

Reconstruction after the earthquake

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

Art in the cathedral

A casket of precious works

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

The art of maiolica

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The works in the church

The Franciscan convent

Altars, saints and sculptural works

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The expansion of space and changing reality