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

Connections with other UNESCO sites

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

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

The two churches

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A triumph of colour

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

Wonderful quick decorations

One city, two sites

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

A prominent church

The city of museums

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A city in colour

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A new site for a new church

Many owners, one palace

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The façade used as a puppet theatre

A talking palace

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

An eagle-shaped city

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

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

From International Gothic to present day

The Maiolica of the staircase

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The disastrous earthquake

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

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The internal colours

Discovering the mother church

St. Sebastian, so much work!

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

One city, three sites

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

Feast days

The Baroque town by the sea

A new site for a new city

A symbol for the town

Some masterpieces

New roads for Catania

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Feasting in Palazzolo

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Norman apses

Two illustrious patron saints

The theatre of taste

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

A miniature city

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

A half-Baroque church

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

A long reconstruction

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A colourful floor

The church of Carmine

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The Staircase of Angels

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Some prestigious works

A small room with a golden entrance

The Burgos crucifix

A feast only for Scicli

A majestic and luminous church

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The colours of the cathedral

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

A museum to save a tradition

Searching for colour

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

A square as the heart of the city

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Modica, a city with ancient origins

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

Between white and black

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

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

A hall for the feasts

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Prominent façade

The wall comes to life

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The interior and its masterpieces

The chocolate of Modica