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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

Discovering the mother church

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

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

Wonderful quick decorations

Searching for colour

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Many owners, one palace

A miniature city

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A museum to save a tradition

Some masterpieces

Prominent façade

A new site for a new church

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

Some prestigious works

The internal colours

The disastrous earthquake

The church of Carmine

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

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

The Baroque town by the sea

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Connections with other UNESCO sites

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

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

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A feast only for Scicli

A city in colour

Norman apses

A majestic and luminous church

The wall comes to life

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The Burgos crucifix

A small room with a golden entrance

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

Feasting in Palazzolo

The interior and its masterpieces

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The two churches

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

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San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

St. Sebastian, so much work!

A square as the heart of the city

An eagle-shaped city

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A colourful floor

New roads for Catania

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

Between white and black

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

A symbol for the town

The theatre of taste

A hall for the feasts

The Maiolica of the staircase

A talking palace

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

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

A prominent church

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

One city, three sites

A triumph of colour

Feast days

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

From International Gothic to present day

The colours of the cathedral

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

A half-Baroque church

A long reconstruction

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The Staircase of Angels

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

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The façade used as a puppet theatre

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

One city, two sites

The city of museums

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Two illustrious patron saints

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A new palace for the La Rocca lords

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

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

The chocolate of Modica

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

A new site for a new city