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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

Feasting in Palazzolo

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

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The internal colours

A hall for the feasts

The interior and its masterpieces

The Baroque town by the sea

The Burgos crucifix

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The wall comes to life

A half-Baroque church

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A talking palace

St. Sebastian, so much work!

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

The city of museums

A city in colour

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Limestone, the colour of harmony

Norman apses

New roads for Catania

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

A colourful floor

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A long reconstruction

A majestic and luminous church

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The Maiolica of the staircase

The church of Carmine

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

A symbol for the town

Searching for colour

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Connections with other UNESCO sites

The colours of the cathedral

The chocolate of Modica

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The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

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A square as the heart of the city

Feast days

A miniature city

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

Prominent façade

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

From International Gothic to present day

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

One city, three sites

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The two churches

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The Staircase of Angels

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Between white and black

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

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San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

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Some masterpieces

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

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The theatre of taste

An eagle-shaped city

Some prestigious works

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

A museum to save a tradition

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

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

A small room with a golden entrance

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Discovering the mother church

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The disastrous earthquake

A prominent church

Wonderful quick decorations

Many owners, one palace

One city, two sites

Two illustrious patron saints

A triumph of colour

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

A new site for a new church

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