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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

City and nature

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

Luminous sacred spaces

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

The palace, the town, the church

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

St. Agatha and the candelore

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

Reconstruction after the earthquake

The works in the church

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

The eagle-shaped city

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The Church of St. Benedict

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

Altars, saints and sculptural works

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

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The city within the city

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

The city palace

The Franciscan convent

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The interior and works of art

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

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

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

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

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

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

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

The new roads of the city

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

The Benedictines’ library

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The Church of St. Francis

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

The interior of the church: space and colour

A heritage of votive works

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

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

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

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Religious architecture

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The Church of Madonna della Stella

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

The art of maiolica

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

The Staircase of Angels

A Nobel Prize in Modica

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

The articulated interior spaces

A stone garden

The two churches

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

One city, three sites

Art in the cathedral

The Church of St. Paul

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

The church and the college

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

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

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The casket of austerity under the great dome

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The Palazzo dei due mori

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

The expansion of space and changing reality

The church and the monastery

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

A casket of precious works

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

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

A story of rebirth