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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

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The theatre of taste

A miniature city

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Some masterpieces

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

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

New roads for Catania

An eagle-shaped city

A museum to save a tradition

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A majestic and luminous church

The Staircase of Angels

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The internal colours

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Many owners, one palace

A triumph of colour

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A new site for a new church

Searching for colour

A long reconstruction

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The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The city of museums

A city in colour

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Wonderful quick decorations

A square as the heart of the city

The Baroque town by the sea

One city, two sites

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

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Prominent façade

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St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Feasting in Palazzolo

Two illustrious patron saints

A feast only for Scicli

A half-Baroque church

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The wall comes to life

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Between white and black

Some prestigious works

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The church of Carmine

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The Maiolica of the staircase

A colourful floor

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A new site for a new city

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The disastrous earthquake

From International Gothic to present day

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

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

A small room with a golden entrance

A talking palace

The Burgos crucifix

A prominent church

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The interior and its masterpieces

Feast days

A symbol for the town

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The chocolate of Modica

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

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The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The two churches

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

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

Norman apses

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Discovering the mother church

The colours of the cathedral

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

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The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

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A hall for the feasts

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One city, three sites