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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 half-Baroque church

Feast days

One city, three sites

A majestic and luminous church

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

A small room with a golden entrance

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

A prominent church

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

A hall for the feasts

Some prestigious works

A triumph of colour

The Maiolica of the staircase

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

A new site for a new church

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A colourful floor

The Baroque town by the sea

A city in colour

A new site for a new city

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A square as the heart of the city

A symbol for the town

Wonderful quick decorations

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

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The senses tell the story of the church of Santa Maria del Carmelo

The wall comes to life

Prominent façade

The internal colours

The Staircase of Angels

A feast only for Scicli

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

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

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The two churches

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The Burgos crucifix

The city of museums

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Between white and black

The disastrous earthquake

Limestone, the colour of harmony

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

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

A miniature city

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Searching for colour

Some masterpieces

The theatre of taste

The colours of the cathedral

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The chocolate of Modica

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giovanni Battista

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Giuliano ai Crociferi

Many owners, one palace

The church of Carmine

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Discovering the mother church

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

Norman apses

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

One city, two sites

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Feasting in Palazzolo

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A long reconstruction

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

A museum to save a tradition

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

An eagle-shaped city

New roads for Catania

The interior and its masterpieces

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Two illustrious patron saints

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

From International Gothic to present day

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A talking palace