Noto

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

hearing
The voices of the Infiorata festival

If we lived in Palazzo Nicolaci and were in one of the rooms overlooking Via Corrado Nicolaci, on the third Sunday in May we would hear voices in the street.
On this day, the Saluto alla Primavera (Greeting to Spring) is celebrated, also known as the Infiorata, which attracts many people to Noto.
Every year, depending on the theme, sixteen pictures are created with petals and the street is filled with voices.
You would hear comments about the pictures, the clicking of cameras, children running up and down the street and people greeting one another for the occasion.

sight
The journey of the Sun

The hall of feasts, or yellow room, hosted banquets and social events to which all the nobles of the surrounding area were invited.
Our attention is drawn to the room’s ceiling fresco, where Apollo is depicted driving the chariot of the Sun.
In this representation the sun takes the same exact path that it takes over the city of Noto.
No detail was left to chance! The Sun, the light, that which illuminates and gives life was painted as faithfully as in reality.

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The internal colours

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The chocolate of Modica

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A half-Baroque church

New roads for Catania

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The wall comes to life

Searching for colour

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Some prestigious works

Prominent façade

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

Discovering the mother church

Wonderful quick decorations

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

Feast days

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The church of Carmine

A miniature city

Between white and black

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A symbol for the town

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Two illustrious patron saints

The colours of the cathedral

A museum to save a tradition

Many owners, one palace

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

One city, two sites

The city of museums

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The disastrous earthquake

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A feast only for Scicli

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

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

The Burgos crucifix

One city, three sites

A majestic and luminous church

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

An eagle-shaped city

A square as the heart of the city

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The Maiolica of the staircase

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The Staircase of Angels

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

The interior and its masterpieces

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

A hall for the feasts

A talking palace

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The Baroque town by the sea

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

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

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Some masterpieces

A city in colour

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

A colourful floor

Norman apses

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

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

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

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

A prominent church

The theatre of taste

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

A new site for a new city

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

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

A new site for a new church

Feasting in Palazzolo

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

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

A triumph of colour

The façade used as a puppet theatre

A long reconstruction

A small room with a golden entrance

The two churches

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

From International Gothic to present day