Ragusa

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

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Portals as front curtains

The entrance portal to the Palazzo della Cancelleria stands out from the façade, occupying a large part of it. It unravels like a front curtain, ready to welcome an equally admirable scene inside. It is animated by the mixtilinear trabeation that surmounts it.

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Pietra pece, a rock from Ragusa with multiple uses

Pietra pece is one of the most commonly used materials in the Hyblaean landscape.
Also called bituminous rock, this stone takes on different shades of grey and brown and is characterised by veins and surface irregularities.
Touching the stone is the best way to appreciate its nature.

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

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

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Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

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Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

A casket of precious works

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The Franciscan convent

A stone garden

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

Religious architecture

The art of maiolica

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

The new roads of the city

The church and the college

The city palace

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The eagle-shaped city

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

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

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The Church of St. Paul

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The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

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

The Church of Madonna della Stella

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

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

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The Church of St. Francis

A heritage of votive works

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The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

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

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

The Benedictines’ library

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

The city within the city

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

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

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

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The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

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The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

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City and nature

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Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The Staircase of Angels

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

The interior and works of art

The two churches

A story of rebirth

Luminous sacred spaces

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The Church of St. John the Evangelist

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

Reconstruction after the earthquake

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The casket of austerity under the great dome

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The church and the monastery

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

One city, three sites

Art in the cathedral

The Church of St. Benedict

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

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

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

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The articulated interior spaces

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A Nobel Prize in Modica

The Palazzo dei due mori

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The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The expansion of space and changing reality

St. Agatha and the candelore

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

Altars, saints and sculptural works

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

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The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

The palace, the town, the church

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The works in the church

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century