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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 colours of the cathedral

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

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A Nobel Prize in Modica

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Wonderful quick decorations

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The internal colours

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

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The wall comes to life

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

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

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One city, two sites

A miniature city

Two illustrious patron saints

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The Staircase of Angels

A prominent church

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

A museum to save a tradition

The disastrous earthquake

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

A square as the heart of the city

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

One city, three sites

A half-Baroque church

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

Many owners, one palace

Feasting in Palazzolo

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Limestone, the colour of harmony

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A small room with a golden entrance

From International Gothic to present day

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A long reconstruction

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Discovering the mother church

The Maiolica of the staircase

An eagle-shaped city

A majestic and luminous church

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A colourful floor

A new site for a new city

Some masterpieces

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The chocolate of Modica

A city in colour

Between white and black

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

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

The church of Carmine

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From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

A symbol for the town

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

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A triumph of colour

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The Baroque town by the sea

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The city of museums

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

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

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The theatre of taste

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

A talking palace

Some prestigious works

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San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

New roads for Catania

A new site for a new church

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The Burgos crucifix

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Norman apses

Modica, a city with ancient origins

A hall for the feasts

Searching for colour

The two churches

The interior and its masterpieces

Prominent façade

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

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

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Feast days

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras