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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 Staircase of Angels

A city in colour

Some prestigious works

The chocolate of Modica

The two churches

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

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Discovering the mother church

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Wonderful quick decorations

The Baroque town by the sea

A feast only for Scicli

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A square as the heart of the city

From International Gothic to present day

A half-Baroque church

A talking palace

The disastrous earthquake

Limestone, the colour of harmony

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A symbol for the town

Searching for colour

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The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The wall comes to life

An eagle-shaped city

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The city of museums

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

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A Nobel Prize in Modica

A prominent church

Some masterpieces

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

A hall for the feasts

One city, three sites

The church of Carmine

One city, two sites

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The interior and its masterpieces

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

A museum to save a tradition

Modica, a city with ancient origins

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

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The Maiolica of the staircase

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The theatre of taste

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

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Between white and black

A new site for a new church

The Burgos crucifix

A majestic and luminous church

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

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A miniature city

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

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

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Feast days

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

Norman apses

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

Many owners, one palace

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

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A colourful floor

A small room with a golden entrance

Prominent façade

Feasting in Palazzolo

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Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

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A triumph of colour

A long reconstruction

A new site for a new city

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

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From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

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

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

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

New roads for Catania

Two illustrious patron saints

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The colours of the cathedral

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The internal colours

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)