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The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

hearing
The mermaids’ song and the instruments’ music

The characteristic corbels of these balconies feature depictions of mermaids, musicians and musical instruments, including maracas, a flute and a trumpet.
Staring at us playfully from above, this small orchestra seems to draw our attention and invite us to enter the evocative building.
mensole sirena

The Church of St. Paul

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

The works in the church

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

St. Agatha and the candelore

A unifying project for the city of Catania

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

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

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

A heritage of votive works

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The Staircase of Angels

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The palace, the town, the church

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The expansion of space and changing reality

Luminous sacred spaces

The casket of austerity under the great dome

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

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

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

A stone garden

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

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

One city, three sites

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

City and nature

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

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

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

The Church of Madonna della Stella

The church and the monastery

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

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

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A story of rebirth

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

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

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The city palace

The Church of St. Francis

The eagle-shaped city

Altars, saints and sculptural works

Art in the cathedral

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The city within the city

The interior of the church: space and colour

The Palazzo dei due mori

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

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

Reconstruction after the earthquake

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

Religious architecture

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

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

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

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

The interior and works of art

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

The art of maiolica

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

The Benedictines’ library

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

The two churches

The articulated interior spaces

The church and the college

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

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

A casket of precious works

The Church of St. Benedict

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

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

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The Franciscan convent

The new roads of the city

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

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

A Nobel Prize in Modica