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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 hall for the feasts

Between white and black

Some masterpieces

The wall comes to life

The Baroque town by the sea

Discovering the mother church

The internal colours

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A museum to save a tradition

Prominent façade

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

The interior and its masterpieces

A new site for a new church

From International Gothic to present day

Wonderful quick decorations

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A city in colour

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A majestic and luminous church

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One city, two sites

The church of Carmine

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Many owners, one palace

A half-Baroque church

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

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Two illustrious patron saints

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

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

A long reconstruction

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Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Some prestigious works

A prominent church

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The two churches

A feast only for Scicli

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The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

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The theatre of taste

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Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

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The Staircase of Angels

A square as the heart of the city

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From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

An eagle-shaped city

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The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Norman apses

Searching for colour

A colourful floor

The façade used as a puppet theatre

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One city, three sites

A small room with a golden entrance

The Burgos crucifix

New roads for Catania

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Feasting in Palazzolo

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

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

A symbol for the town

The Maiolica of the staircase

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

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A Nobel Prize in Modica

The colours of the cathedral

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A talking palace

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The city of museums

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

Feast days

The chocolate of Modica

The disastrous earthquake

A miniature city

A triumph of colour

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

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