Ragusa

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. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

Reconstruction after the earthquake

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

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

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

Luminous sacred spaces

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The church and the monastery

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

St. Agatha and the candelore

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

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

The articulated interior spaces

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The interior of the church: space and colour

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

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

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

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

Altars, saints and sculptural works

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The art of maiolica

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

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

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

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

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

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

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

The Benedictines’ library

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

The Church of St. Francis

The Church of Madonna della Stella

The casket of austerity under the great dome

The city palace

City and nature

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

The city within the city

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

The works in the church

The eagle-shaped city

A heritage of votive works

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

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

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The palace, the town, the church

Religious architecture

The expansion of space and changing reality

The Franciscan convent

The Church of St. Benedict

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

The Church of St. Paul

A stone garden

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

Art in the cathedral

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

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

The church and the college

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

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

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

The new roads of the city

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

A casket of precious works

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

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

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

The interior and works of art

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

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

A story of rebirth

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

One city, three sites

The Palazzo dei due mori

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

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

The two churches

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

The Staircase of Angels

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo