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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 wall comes to life

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Feasting in Palazzolo

One city, three sites

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A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A prominent church

A long reconstruction

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

A hall for the feasts

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The Maiolica of the staircase

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

The colours of the cathedral

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One city, two sites

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The Staircase of Angels

Searching for colour

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Between white and black

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The interior and its masterpieces

Feast days

Discovering the mother church

A talking palace

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San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A new site for a new church

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A miniature city

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Prominent façade

Two illustrious patron saints

Wonderful quick decorations

The chocolate of Modica

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The Burgos crucifix

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

An eagle-shaped city

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

A colourful floor

The theatre of taste

Connections with other UNESCO sites

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Some masterpieces

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

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A new site for a new city

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

A city in colour

A symbol for the town

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The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A museum to save a tradition

A half-Baroque church

A triumph of colour

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A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The internal colours

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A square as the heart of the city

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Some prestigious works

A small room with a golden entrance

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Norman apses

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

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Many owners, one palace

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The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

New roads for Catania

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The two churches

Limestone, the colour of harmony

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Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

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The disastrous earthquake

The Baroque town by the sea