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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 design by Vincenzo Sinatra

From International Gothic to present day

An eagle-shaped city

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A museum to save a tradition

The wall comes to life

The theatre of taste

A square as the heart of the city

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

New roads for Catania

Between white and black

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Some prestigious works

Feast days

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

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

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

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

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A hall for the feasts

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

One city, three sites

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

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

Some masterpieces

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The Burgos crucifix

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The colours of the cathedral

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

A majestic and luminous church

The disastrous earthquake

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A small room with a golden entrance

A half-Baroque church

Prominent façade

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

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

A new site for a new city

A triumph of colour

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

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

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The interior and its masterpieces

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

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

A feast only for Scicli

The two churches

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

The internal colours

The Baroque town by the sea

One city, two sites

Two illustrious patron saints

Wonderful quick decorations

The Staircase of Angels

Many owners, one palace

A symbol for the town

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

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

A city in colour

A long reconstruction

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The chocolate of Modica

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

A talking palace

A miniature city

The church of Carmine

A prominent church

The city of museums

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A colourful floor

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The Maiolica of the staircase

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

Searching for colour

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A new site for a new church

Norman apses

Feasting in Palazzolo

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

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Discovering the mother church