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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

Luminous sacred spaces

Religious architecture

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

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The articulated interior spaces

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

The eagle-shaped city

A unifying project for the city of Catania

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

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

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

A stone garden

The church and the monastery

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

The Franciscan convent

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

The art of maiolica

The Church of Madonna della Stella

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

The interior of the church: space and colour

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

Altars, saints and sculptural works

The casket of austerity under the great dome

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

St. Agatha and the candelore

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

The interior and works of art

The works in the church

A story of rebirth

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

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

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

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

The two churches

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The Church of St. Benedict

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

A heritage of votive works

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The palace, the town, the church

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

A Nobel Prize in Modica

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

The church and the college

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

The city palace

The Church of St. Francis

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

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

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

A casket of precious works

One city, three sites

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

The new roads of the city

The Benedictines’ library

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

The Palazzo dei due mori

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

The expansion of space and changing reality

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The city within the city

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

City and nature

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

The Staircase of Angels

Reconstruction after the earthquake

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

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

Art in the cathedral

The Church of St. Paul

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

The smallest Greek theatre in the world