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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

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

A heritage of votive works

The works in the church

The church and the monastery

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

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

A casket of precious works

Art in the cathedral

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

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

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

A story of rebirth

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

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

The articulated interior spaces

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

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

The church and the college

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The art of maiolica

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

A stone garden

The city palace

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

The Church of St. Francis

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

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The interior of the church: space and colour

The new roads of the city

The Staircase of Angels

Luminous sacred spaces

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

Religious architecture

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

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

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

Reconstruction after the earthquake

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

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

The Benedictines’ library

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The interior and works of art

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

City and nature

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

The Palazzo dei due mori

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The palace, the town, the church

The expansion of space and changing reality

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The Church of St. Benedict

Altars, saints and sculptural works

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

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

The city within the city

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

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

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

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

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

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

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

The casket of austerity under the great dome

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

The Franciscan convent

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

The Church of Madonna della Stella

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

One city, three sites

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

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

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

The eagle-shaped city

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

The Church of St. Paul

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

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

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

The two churches

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

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

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

St. Agatha and the candelore

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration