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.

The articulated interior spaces

Art in the cathedral

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The palace, the town, the church

The Franciscan convent

One city, three sites

The Staircase of Angels

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

The Church of St. Paul

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

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The interior and works of art

Altars, saints and sculptural works

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

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

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

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

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

Religious architecture

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

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

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

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

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

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

The interior of the church: space and colour

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

A stone garden

The Church of St. Francis

The eagle-shaped city

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

The Church of St. Benedict

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The new roads of the city

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

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The church and the monastery

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

A casket of precious works

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

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

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

Reconstruction after the earthquake

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

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

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

The works in the church

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

The city within the city

The church and the college

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Luminous sacred spaces

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

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

A heritage of votive works

City and nature

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

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

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

The art of maiolica

The Church of Madonna della Stella

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

The expansion of space and changing reality

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A story of rebirth

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

The casket of austerity under the great dome

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The Benedictines’ library

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The two churches

A Nobel Prize in Modica

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The city palace

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

St. Agatha and the candelore

The Palazzo dei due mori

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

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

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century