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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 Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A square as the heart of the city

Connections with other UNESCO sites

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A miniature city

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A Nobel Prize in Modica

An eagle-shaped city

Between white and black

Some prestigious works

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

One city, two sites

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The city of museums

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

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

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Feasting in Palazzolo

From International Gothic to present day

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The Staircase of Angels

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

A half-Baroque church

The Maiolica of the staircase

The senses tell the Mother Church of San Nicolò and of the Santissimo Salvatore

A city in colour

Two illustrious patron saints

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

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

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

A majestic and luminous church

A small room with a golden entrance

A museum to save a tradition

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Feast days

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

A long reconstruction

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The chocolate of Modica

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Wonderful quick decorations

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The internal colours

New roads for Catania

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Many owners, one palace

One city, three sites

The colours of the cathedral

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Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

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

The Baroque town by the sea

A hall for the feasts

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Some masterpieces

Norman apses

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

A prominent church

The senses tell the Benedictine Monastery and San NicoIò l’Arena

Discovering the mother church

Prominent façade

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

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

A colourful floor

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

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A new site for a new city

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The theatre of taste

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The disastrous earthquake

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The interior and its masterpieces

The Burgos crucifix

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The wall comes to life

A symbol for the town

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

A feast only for Scicli

A triumph of colour

A new site for a new church

The two churches

The façade used as a puppet theatre

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The church of Carmine

Searching for colour

A talking palace

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public