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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

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The wall comes to life

A square as the heart of the city

The two churches

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

Feasting in Palazzolo

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A miniature city

A prominent church

A talking palace

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

Wonderful quick decorations

Prominent façade

The Staircase of Angels

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

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Two illustrious patron saints

The chocolate of Modica

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The theatre of taste

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

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

Discovering the mother church

A hall for the feasts

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Norman apses

The façade used as a puppet theatre

A half-Baroque church

A long reconstruction

Some masterpieces

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The Burgos crucifix

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A feast only for Scicli

A colourful floor

From International Gothic to present day

The church of Carmine

A symbol for the town

A triumph of colour

A new site for a new city

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

One city, three sites

The Maiolica of the staircase

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

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

A museum to save a tradition

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A majestic and luminous church

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

New roads for Catania

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Feast days

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The disastrous earthquake

A small room with a golden entrance

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

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

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

A new site for a new church

A Nobel Prize in Modica

An eagle-shaped city

Between white and black

The colours of the cathedral

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Some prestigious works

Searching for colour

One city, two sites

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The Baroque town by the sea

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

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

The internal colours

The city of museums

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Many owners, one palace

A city in colour

The interior and its masterpieces

Connections with other UNESCO sites