Noto

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

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Corbels and masks

Baroque civic architecture is marked by some strongly characteristic elements, including the corbels that support the balconies.
The stone elements embedded in the wall were worked by master stonemasons into the most imaginative shapes.

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Rococo fabrics and furnishings

The house had to reflect the importance of the family that lived there, so it was essential to oversee all the details in the interior decoration, especially in the reception rooms.
The rooms were decorated in the French Rococo style in vogue at the time, especially in the choice of furniture and precious fabrics.

The church and the monastery

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

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

The church and the college

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The works in the church

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The expansion of space and changing reality

A unifying project for the city of Catania

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

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

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The Church of St. John the Evangelist

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

One city, three sites

The city within the city

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

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The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The palace, the town, the church

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Art in the cathedral

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The eagle-shaped city

The city palace

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

Altars, saints and sculptural works

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

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

The Franciscan convent

The Church of St. Francis

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

The Church of St. Paul

The Staircase of Angels

A stone garden

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

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The Church of Madonna della Stella

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

City and nature

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

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

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

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The Palazzo dei due mori

The interior and works of art

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

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

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

The Benedictines’ library

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

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A new site for the church of San Giorgio

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

A story of rebirth

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

A heritage of votive works

The casket of austerity under the great dome

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

The two churches

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

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Religious architecture

Reconstruction after the earthquake

Luminous sacred spaces

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The articulated interior spaces

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

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The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

A casket of precious works

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

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The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

The new roads of the city

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

The art of maiolica

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

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St. Agatha and the candelore

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

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