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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

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Limestone, the colour of harmony

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A small room with a golden entrance

A symbol for the town

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

A square as the heart of the city

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

A new site for a new church

Modica, a city with ancient origins

A half-Baroque church

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

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A long reconstruction

A Nobel Prize in Modica

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Between white and black

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

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A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A triumph of colour

Feast days

A feast only for Scicli

A colourful floor

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

The chocolate of Modica

New roads for Catania

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

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A prominent church

Norman apses

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

A hall for the feasts

One city, three sites

The façade used as a puppet theatre

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The Baroque town by the sea

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A majestic and luminous church

The Burgos crucifix

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The city of museums

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Two illustrious patron saints

The two churches

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

Prominent façade

The theatre of taste

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Wonderful quick decorations

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

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

The internal colours

From International Gothic to present day

Some masterpieces

Feasting in Palazzolo

The disastrous earthquake

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A city in colour

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Discovering the mother church

Many owners, one palace

A miniature city

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St. Sebastian, so much work!

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A talking palace

The wall comes to life

A museum to save a tradition

One city, two sites

The colours of the cathedral

Some prestigious works

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Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

An eagle-shaped city

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The interior and its masterpieces

The Maiolica of the staircase

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

Searching for colour

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The Staircase of Angels

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

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Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

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Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

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