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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 Burgos crucifix

Some masterpieces

A long reconstruction

The city of museums

From International Gothic to present day

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The disastrous earthquake

Some prestigious works

The colours of the cathedral

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The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

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St. Sebastian, so much work!

Two illustrious patron saints

A half-Baroque church

One city, three sites

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The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

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The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

A symbol for the town

A feast only for Scicli

The Staircase of Angels

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Many owners, one palace

The chocolate of Modica

A miniature city

A colourful floor

Discovering the mother church

A talking palace

The Maiolica of the staircase

A prominent church

The wall comes to life

The church of Carmine

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The theatre of taste

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Connections with other UNESCO sites

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Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

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

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Prominent façade

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A majestic and luminous church

The Baroque town by the sea

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

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One city, two sites

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

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Between white and black

Feast days

A square as the heart of the city

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

New roads for Catania

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The façade used as a puppet theatre

A museum to save a tradition

A city in colour

A small room with a golden entrance

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

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The two churches

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

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A Nobel Prize in Modica

A new site for a new church

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The interior and its masterpieces

A new site for a new city

Wonderful quick decorations

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

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

Searching for colour

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A hall for the feasts

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

An eagle-shaped city

Feasting in Palazzolo

The internal colours

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A triumph of colour

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Norman apses