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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

Two illustrious patron saints

Many owners, one palace

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The façade used as a puppet theatre

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Prominent façade

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The Baroque town by the sea

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

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

An eagle-shaped city

A triumph of colour

A prominent church

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

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The Staircase of Angels

The Burgos crucifix

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A symbol for the town

A hall for the feasts

St. Sebastian, so much work!

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Connections with other UNESCO sites

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The chocolate of Modica

A long reconstruction

A majestic and luminous church

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The theatre of taste

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Wonderful quick decorations

A small room with a golden entrance

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

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The internal colours

Searching for colour

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Some masterpieces

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Norman apses

A talking palace

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

From International Gothic to present day

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

One city, two sites

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

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

A city in colour

The interior and its masterpieces

A new site for a new church

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Feast days

A half-Baroque church

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

One city, three sites

Some prestigious works

The city of museums

Modica, a city with ancient origins

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

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Discovering the mother church

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Between white and black

The colours of the cathedral

A miniature city

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

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The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The two churches

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The Maiolica of the staircase

A colourful floor

A museum to save a tradition

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A square as the heart of the city

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San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

A feast only for Scicli

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

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The wall comes to life

The disastrous earthquake

A new site for a new city

New roads for Catania

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

Feasting in Palazzolo

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe