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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

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A long reconstruction

A prominent church

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

A city in colour

A square as the heart of the city

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The Maiolica of the staircase

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The Burgos crucifix

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A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

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The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

An eagle-shaped city

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

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

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The disastrous earthquake

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

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A Nobel Prize in Modica

The Staircase of Angels

The wall comes to life

Feast days

A majestic and luminous church

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

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A small room with a golden entrance

The two churches

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

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The internal colours

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Norman apses

A half-Baroque church

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Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

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The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Feasting in Palazzolo

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

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The theatre of taste

Prominent façade

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A new palace for the La Rocca lords

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Many owners, one palace

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Between white and black

The colours of the cathedral

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

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

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

A colourful floor

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Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

A symbol for the town

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Wonderful quick decorations

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

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Two illustrious patron saints

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Some prestigious works

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