Modica

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

sight
Staircases and panoramas

The staircase of San Giorgio, besides being an important link between the upper and lower cities of Modica, is one of the best panoramic places where you can fully appreciate the city’s urban structure. A scenographic point that establishes a visual union between the two ridges where the city stands.
Scalinate e panorami

hearing
Melodies from the church

On a visit to the Cathedral of San Giorgio you can still appreciate the notes from the four keyboards, eighty stops and three thousand pipes of the monumental church organ designed by Casimiro Allieri, which still works today and is used for the most important liturgical celebrations. It is an instrument with a scenic architectural structure and exceptional sound quality that offers a sensory experience still appreciated today in a very sacred place.
dettaglio canne organo organo

The city palace

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

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

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

City and nature

A casket of precious works

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

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

Art in the cathedral

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

The expansion of space and changing reality

Luminous sacred spaces

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The Church of Madonna della Stella

The two churches

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

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

The Church of St. Paul

Altars, saints and sculptural works

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

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

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

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

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

The Church of St. Benedict

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The Staircase of Angels

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

A heritage of votive works

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

Religious architecture

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

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

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

The Church of St. Francis

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

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

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

A stone garden

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

The church and the college

The Benedictines’ library

The Franciscan convent

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

The palace, the town, the church

The interior of the church: space and colour

The new roads of the city

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

One city, three sites

The works in the church

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The Palazzo dei due mori

The eagle-shaped city

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

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

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

The casket of austerity under the great dome

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

The city within the city

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The church and the monastery

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

The articulated interior spaces

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

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The art of maiolica

A story of rebirth

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

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

St. Agatha and the candelore

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The interior and works of art

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

Reconstruction after the earthquake

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

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

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha