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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

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The wall comes to life

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

The Burgos crucifix

From International Gothic to present day

A talking palace

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

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

A prominent church

A miniature city

The disastrous earthquake

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

One city, two sites

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Modica, a city with ancient origins

A colourful floor

Some prestigious works

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

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

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

An eagle-shaped city

Between white and black

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

A long reconstruction

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Many owners, one palace

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

One city, three sites

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The colours of the cathedral

Feasting in Palazzolo

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The Staircase of Angels

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The façade used as a puppet theatre

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

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

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

The Maiolica of the staircase

Some masterpieces

The city of museums

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Feast days

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The church of Carmine

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Wonderful quick decorations

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

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The internal colours

New roads for Catania

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Norman apses

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

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

A symbol for the town

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Searching for colour

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

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

A feast only for Scicli

Prominent façade

A square as the heart of the city

Two illustrious patron saints

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

A half-Baroque church

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The Baroque town by the sea

The theatre of taste

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A majestic and luminous church

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

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A new site for a new city

Discovering the mother church

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The chocolate of Modica

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

A new site for a new church

St. Sebastian, so much work!

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

A museum to save a tradition

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A small room with a golden entrance

A triumph of colour

The interior and its masterpieces

The two churches

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

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

A city in colour

A hall for the feasts