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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

A city in colour

Between white and black

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A new site for a new church

The wall comes to life

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Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

Many owners, one palace

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The Baroque town by the sea

The church of Carmine

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

An eagle-shaped city

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

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

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

St. Sebastian, so much work!

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

Wonderful quick decorations

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Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A colourful floor

The chocolate of Modica

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

One city, three sites

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

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

The two churches

Some prestigious works

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Modica, a city with ancient origins

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The internal colours

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New roads for Catania

A majestic and luminous church

A small room with a golden entrance

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A hall for the feasts

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Discovering the mother church

From International Gothic to present day

Feasting in Palazzolo

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

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The disastrous earthquake

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

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

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The character of Badia Sant’Agata

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A square as the heart of the city

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

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

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A triumph of colour

The Burgos crucifix

A talking palace

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The interior and its masterpieces

Prominent façade

Searching for colour

A feast only for Scicli

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The Maiolica of the staircase

Some masterpieces

A miniature city

A museum to save a tradition

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

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

The city of museums

Norman apses

A symbol for the town

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Two illustrious patron saints

The theatre of taste

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Feast days

One city, two sites

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The colours of the cathedral

A prominent church

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The Staircase of Angels

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

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

A long reconstruction

A new site for a new city