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

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Different materials for different temperatures

A church decorated with infinite materials that make it wonderful and precious.
If we could touch the walls and decorations of the church, we would realise how much the temperature of one material can vary compared to another: the glass windows are very cold in winter, but much warmer in summer when heated by the sun; the blue, plaster decorations are much warmer than the marble columns of the aedicula where the statue of the saint is kept; and the saint, made of wood, is warmer than all those materials.

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The church with a blue interior

The church of San Giovanni Evangelista (St. John the Evangelist) features a splendid decoration with blue and gold stuccoes from a renovation in the mid-19th century.
The artist is one Giuseppe Sesta, as can be read from an inscription at the entrance which also bears the date 1861.
The blue of the decoration is like a ribbon that runs around and ties together the church walls, lit up from time to time by the golden stuccoes.
tela crocifisso di Burgos

The Baroque town by the sea

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

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The wall comes to life

The role of the religious orders in rebuilding the Val di Noto

Between white and black

Modica, a city with ancient origins

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

An eagle-shaped city

Searching for colour

A long reconstruction

A talking palace

A symbol for the town

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

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Connections with other UNESCO sites

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The façade used as a puppet theatre

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Some masterpieces

The two churches

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A colourful floor

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The Burgos crucifix

The Staircase of Angels

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Prominent façade

A triumph of colour

The disastrous earthquake

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

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The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Norman apses

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

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Feasting in Palazzolo

The Maiolica of the staircase

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Feast days

A Nobel Prize in Modica

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Limestone, the colour of harmony

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Some prestigious works

The theatre of taste

A city in colour

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The colours of the cathedral

A new site for a new city

The internal colours

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

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Two illustrious patron saints

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New roads for Catania

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A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

One city, three sites

A hall for the feasts

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

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A small room with a golden entrance

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The Barresi-Branciforte lords

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St. Sebastian, so much work!

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A new palace for the La Rocca lords

A miniature city

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