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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

Between white and black

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A talking palace

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Limestone, the colour of harmony

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

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The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The city of museums

Prominent façade

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A half-Baroque church

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Some masterpieces

Feasting in Palazzolo

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

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The two churches

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Wonderful quick decorations

A new site for a new city

A colourful floor

The Maiolica of the staircase

The Baroque town by the sea

A symbol for the town

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A new palace for the La Rocca lords

A miniature city

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

Some prestigious works

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The façade used as a puppet theatre

One city, three sites

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

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Feast days

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A museum to save a tradition

Many owners, one palace

Norman apses

The chocolate of Modica

Searching for colour

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

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The Burgos crucifix

New roads for Catania

The Staircase of Angels

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Two illustrious patron saints

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

The internal colours

A long reconstruction

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The wall comes to life

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

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

The disastrous earthquake

The theatre of taste

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A majestic and luminous church

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The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

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A hall for the feasts

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A small room with a golden entrance

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The interior and its masterpieces

A prominent church

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

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From International Gothic to present day

A triumph of colour

An eagle-shaped city

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Modica, a city with ancient origins

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