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The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

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Furnishing and innovation

The furniture used to furnish the houses of wealthy families followed the fashion of the time.
Louis XV style spread between 1720 and 1760 and was a revolution in furnishing that reflected the luxurious and refined lifestyle of the French nobility.
It was a period of great innovation in woodworking techniques.
There was a preference for slender, light and highly decorated structures inspired by the Italian and German Rococo.

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Carlo and the former Jesuit college

The church and the college

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

The art of maiolica

Piazza Duomo, the elephant fountain, the heart of the city

The city palace

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

The new roads of the city

The neo-Gothic seminary chapel: symbols, light and space

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

The Duomo di San Giorgio (Cathedral of St. George)

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

The Staircase of Angels

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

The Benedictines’ library

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

The Church of St. Francis

Views denied, views conquered: the power of the devout Benedictines

Luminous sacred spaces

The city within the city

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

One city, three sites

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

A stone garden

A casket of precious works

The palace, the town, the church

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The senses tell the story of the Sanctuary Church of Santa Maria della Stella

The Church of St. Benedict

Barresi-Branciforte: the lords of the fiefdom and the modernisation of the town

Art in the cathedral

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

The Church of Madonna della Stella

Verticality and dynamism of the façade of the Church of San Carlo

City and nature

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

The Church of St. Paul

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

Reconstruction after the earthquake

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The eagle-shaped city

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

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

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

The Palazzo dei due mori

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The articulated interior spaces

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The freedom of worship and the Catholic Church’s role in the diffusion of Baroque

A heritage of votive works

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The senses tell the Benedictine Monastery and the Church of San Nicolò l’Arena

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The interior and works of art

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The Franciscan convent

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

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

The works in the church

The church and the monastery

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

Religious architecture

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The church of San Nicolò l’Arena: the majesty of an unfinished beauty

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

Altars, saints and sculptural works

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The casket of austerity under the great dome

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The two churches

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

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

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

The interior of the church: space and colour

St. Agatha and the candelore

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The Badia di Sant’Agata (St. Agatha’s Abbey)

Geometry and wonder in civic architecture in the Baroque of the Val di Noto

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

The expansion of space and changing reality

A story of rebirth