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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

A new site for a new church

A half-Baroque church

A square as the heart of the city

The two churches

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A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

From International Gothic to present day

A symbol for the town

One city, two sites

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

A hall for the feasts

Some masterpieces

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

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A miniature city

Prominent façade

The church of Carmine

Feasting in Palazzolo

Freedom of worship and the role of the Catholic Church in the diffusion of Baroque

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

A city in colour

A feast only for Scicli

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

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The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The internal colours

One city, three sites

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The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The wall comes to life

A majestic and luminous church

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A small room with a golden entrance

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Wonderful quick decorations

Norman apses

A colourful floor

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A Nobel Prize in Modica

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New roads for Catania

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

Some prestigious works

The disastrous earthquake

The Staircase of Angels

A museum to save a tradition

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

Two illustrious patron saints

Searching for colour

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The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A new site for a new city

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The colours of the cathedral

Between white and black

A prominent church

The interior and its masterpieces

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

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

Church of San Giuliano (St. Julian) on Via dei Crociferi: reconstruction

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The Maiolica of the staircase

Discovering the mother church

The chocolate of Modica

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

A talking palace

Limestone, the colour of harmony

From the contrast of the exterior to the internal jubilation of colours

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The façade used as a puppet theatre

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San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

A triumph of colour

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Feast days

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From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The Baroque town by the sea

Many owners, one palace

The city of museums

The theatre of taste

An eagle-shaped city

A long reconstruction

Modica, a city with ancient origins

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The Burgos crucifix