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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

Norman apses

A talking palace

A hall for the feasts

A prominent church

The Staircase of Angels

A symbol for the town

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

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

A small room with a golden entrance

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

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

A museum to save a tradition

Between white and black

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Many owners, one palace

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The senses tell the story of the staircase of Santa Maria del Monte

The two churches

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

The Baroque town by the sea

A feast only for Scicli

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

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

A colourful floor

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Two illustrious patron saints

Searching for colour

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A square as the heart of the city

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A new site for a new city

Feasting in Palazzolo

A majestic and luminous church

The internal colours

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A new site for a new church

Discovering the mother church

An eagle-shaped city

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The senses tell the Mother Church of San Nicolò and of the Santissimo Salvatore

A city in colour

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The interior and its masterpieces

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

New roads for Catania

A half-Baroque church

A long reconstruction

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giovanni Battista

Wonderful quick decorations

A miniature city

The city of museums

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

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

The colours of the cathedral

The senses tell the story of the church of Santa Maria del Carmelo

The Burgos crucifix

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Some masterpieces

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Prominent façade

The theatre of taste

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The disastrous earthquake

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The chocolate of Modica

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

One city, two sites

Some prestigious works

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The façade used as a puppet theatre

A triumph of colour

One city, three sites

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

From International Gothic to present day

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The Maiolica of the staircase

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The church of Carmine

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Giuliano ai Crociferi

The wall comes to life

Feast days