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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 hall for the feasts

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Feast days

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The internal colours

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A half-Baroque church

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

An eagle-shaped city

The two churches

A miniature city

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The Maiolica of the staircase

The Burgos crucifix

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Some masterpieces

Norman apses

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

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Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The disastrous earthquake

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A majestic and luminous church

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Modica, a city with ancient origins

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

The chocolate of Modica

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The church of Carmine

Feasting in Palazzolo

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A talking palace

The Baroque town by the sea

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A city in colour

One city, two sites

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The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The wall comes to life

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A prominent church

The colours of the cathedral

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A new site for a new church

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Prominent façade

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From International Gothic to present day

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

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

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

Two illustrious patron saints

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The theatre of taste

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The senses tell the story of the Badia di Sant’Agata

A triumph of colour

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The interior and its masterpieces

Searching for colour

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A symbol for the town

Discovering the mother church

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

A new site for a new city

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Limestone, the colour of harmony

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

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

Wonderful quick decorations

St. Sebastian, so much work!

A small room with a golden entrance

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

New roads for Catania

Between white and black

A museum to save a tradition

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The city of museums

Many owners, one palace

A feast only for Scicli

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A new palace for the La Rocca lords

A colourful floor

Some prestigious works

The Staircase of Angels

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

One city, three sites

A square as the heart of the city

A long reconstruction

Connections with other UNESCO sites

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph