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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 museum to save a tradition

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A prominent church

The city of museums

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

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The internal colours

Some masterpieces

A half-Baroque church

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

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A feast only for Scicli

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A Nobel Prize in Modica

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Between white and black

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

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Norman apses

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

A majestic and luminous church

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A talking palace

From International Gothic to present day

A symbol for the town

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

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The Burgos crucifix

Discovering the mother church

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One city, two sites

Two illustrious patron saints

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The Staircase of Angels

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

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St. Sebastian, so much work!

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The Maiolica of the staircase

The colours of the cathedral

A miniature city

An eagle-shaped city

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Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The two churches

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The disastrous earthquake

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A small room with a golden entrance

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A hall for the feasts

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Prominent façade

Searching for colour

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

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Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

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A colourful floor

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Feasting in Palazzolo

The chocolate of Modica

The Baroque town by the sea

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

The interior and its masterpieces

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

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

A long reconstruction

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

A triumph of colour

A new site for a new church

Feast days

One city, three sites

Modica, a city with ancient origins

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Many owners, one palace

A new site for a new city

A city in colour

A square as the heart of the city

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Some prestigious works

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

New roads for Catania

Wonderful quick decorations

The wall comes to life

The theatre of taste

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