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 city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

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St. Agatha and the candelore

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The Staircase of Angels

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City and nature

The two churches

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Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

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Altars, saints and sculptural works

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

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The interior and works of art

The articulated interior spaces

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A casket of precious works

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

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

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A unifying project for the city of Catania

The works in the church

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

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

The church and the college

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The Church of St. Paul

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The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

The Church of Madonna della Stella

Luminous sacred spaces

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The Benedictines’ library

The eagle-shaped city

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

The new roads of the city

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

The art of maiolica

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The city within the city

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From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

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The Church of St. Benedict

Art in the cathedral

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

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

A stone garden

One city, three sites

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

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The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

The palace, the town, the church

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The Franciscan convent

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

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The city palace

Religious architecture

The church and the monastery

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

A heritage of votive works

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

The Palazzo dei due mori

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

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

The interior of the church: space and colour

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

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

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

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Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

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

Reconstruction after the earthquake

The expansion of space and changing reality

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

The casket of austerity under the great dome

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A story of rebirth

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The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque