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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 wall comes to life

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The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Searching for colour

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A prominent church

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The two churches

A triumph of colour

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The disastrous earthquake

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St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The colours of the cathedral

A miniature city

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The chocolate of Modica

One city, three sites

A small room with a golden entrance

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A feast only for Scicli

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

A symbol for the town

The Burgos crucifix

The Baroque town by the sea

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A new site for a new church

Norman apses

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A square as the heart of the city

A city in colour

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A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

From International Gothic to present day

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

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The Staircase of Angels

A long reconstruction

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

Feasting in Palazzolo

New roads for Catania

Many owners, one palace

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The interior and its masterpieces

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

Prominent façade

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A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The church of Carmine

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Some prestigious works

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

An eagle-shaped city

Some masterpieces

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The internal colours

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

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Between white and black

A talking palace

A new site for a new city

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Wonderful quick decorations

One city, two sites

The Maiolica of the staircase

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

A half-Baroque church

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A majestic and luminous church

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The city of museums

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

St. Sebastian, so much work!

A colourful floor

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

A museum to save a tradition

Two illustrious patron saints

Feast days

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

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

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

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Discovering the mother church

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The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The theatre of taste

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