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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

Feast days

A small room with a golden entrance

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A museum to save a tradition

Connections with other UNESCO sites

Searching for colour

Discovering the mother church

The Baroque town by the sea

The façade used as a puppet theatre

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

A triumph of colour

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Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

One city, two sites

Feasting in Palazzolo

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

A prominent church

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

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The disastrous earthquake

The two churches

Prominent façade

The internal colours

New roads for Catania

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The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A symbol for the town

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A majestic and luminous church

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

Two illustrious patron saints

From International Gothic to present day

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The church of Carmine

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

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

A new site for a new church

One city, three sites

Norman apses

A colourful floor

The wall comes to life

The interior and its masterpieces

A talking palace

The colours of the cathedral

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

A long reconstruction

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Some prestigious works

A square as the heart of the city

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

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St. Sebastian, so much work!

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

Between white and black

A city in colour

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Modica, a city with ancient origins

A hall for the feasts

A half-Baroque church

The Maiolica of the staircase

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

An eagle-shaped city

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

The Burgos crucifix

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A new site for a new city

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

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The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A feast only for Scicli

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

The Staircase of Angels

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

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

The city of museums

A miniature city

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Some masterpieces

The chocolate of Modica

Wonderful quick decorations

Many owners, one palace

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

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The theatre of taste

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