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 new roads of the city

The Benedictines’ library

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

The expansion of space and changing reality

The casket of austerity under the great dome

The works in the church

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

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

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

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

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The Staircase of Angels

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

Religious architecture

The palace, the town, the church

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The Church of St. Paul

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

City and nature

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

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

The Franciscan convent

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

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

The Church of Madonna della Stella

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

Reconstruction after the earthquake

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

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

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

The interior and works of art

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The Palazzo dei due mori

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

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

The Church of St. Francis

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

Art in the cathedral

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

The eagle-shaped city

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

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

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

St. Agatha and the candelore

A casket of precious works

The church and the college

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

The Church of St. Benedict

A unifying project for the city of Catania

A heritage of votive works

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

The two churches

Altars, saints and sculptural works

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

The church and the monastery

The articulated interior spaces

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

The interior of the church: space and colour

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

Luminous sacred spaces

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

A story of rebirth

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

The city palace

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

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

One city, three sites

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The art of maiolica

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

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

A stone garden

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

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

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

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

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

The city within the city

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo