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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

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

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A new site for a new church

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The Maiolica of the staircase

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From International Gothic to present day

A symbol for the town

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The wall comes to life

The two churches

Wonderful quick decorations

One city, three sites

The chocolate of Modica

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

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A hall for the feasts

The interior and its masterpieces

The internal colours

The city of museums

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A feast only for Scicli

Between white and black

Connections with other UNESCO sites

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Two illustrious patron saints

The disastrous earthquake

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A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Some masterpieces

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

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A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A long reconstruction

Feasting in Palazzolo

Some prestigious works

A majestic and luminous church

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

A city in colour

The Baroque town by the sea

Feast days

A miniature city

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A museum to save a tradition

One city, two sites

Prominent façade

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

A square as the heart of the city

A colourful floor

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The church of Carmine

An eagle-shaped city

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

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Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

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The colours of the cathedral

Many owners, one palace

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

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St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

A half-Baroque church

A talking palace

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The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

A triumph of colour

Norman apses

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A small room with a golden entrance

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

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A new site for a new city

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The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

St. Sebastian, so much work!

A prominent church

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The Burgos crucifix

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Discovering the mother church

The theatre of taste

New roads for Catania

The Staircase of Angels

Searching for colour

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

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