A tower façade is a particular type of façade characterised by a narrow and elongated appearance and often has a belfry at the top. This type of façade is typical of Sicilian religious architecture....
He was the second son of Gaetano Quasimodo, a station master, and Clotilde Ragusa. He had three siblings: Enzo, Ettore and Rosina.
The great poet travelled on business throughout Italy from Messina, to Florence, Reggio Calabria, Milan and Imperia.
When he left for the first time, he changed the ...
The writer and poet Gesualdo Bufalino described the city of Modica in his work "Argo il cieco, ovvero i Sogni della Memoria" (Argo the Blind, or the Dreams of Memory), Palermo 1990:
"... a town similar to a broken pomegranate. It was near the seaside but rural; one half was condensed on a rocky spu...
In the natural context of the Hyblaean countryside you can spot dry stone walls between one prickly pear plant and another.
In 2018 they were included in the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage by the UNESCO Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
The art of dry stone wall...
Living in Ragusa since 1577 with Mariano Nicastro, the family was not initially involved in public life, until Filippo Nicastro married Baroness Giampiccolo and acquired more important titles, achieving wealth in 1760 when he was elected Knight of Malta....
One highly interesting detail is the splendid sundial that spans the forty-metre marble section that runs along the transept between the chapels of St. Benedict and St. Nicholas of Bari.
The extraordinarily precise measuring instrument was made between 1839 and 1841 by two astronomers, W. S. von Wa...
The simulacrum of the patron saint is a wooden statue by Palermo-born sculptor Girolamo Bagnasco made in the mid-19th century.
The Saint is depicted on horseback, with his triumphant gaze turned towards the sky, in the act of slaying the dragon.
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Born in Poland in 1724, he moved to Rome in the 1750s to study architecture, then came to Catania where he married the daughter of famous architect Francesco Battaglia.
Ittar was welcomed by Don Ignazio Paternò Castello, Prince of Biscari, who became his patron.
He constructed important works i...
The church organ is located in the apse of the main altar.
Together with the meticulously inlaid wooden choir, it creates a spectacular scenic backdrop. It is a monumental instrument, a great scenographic machine created by the artist Donato del Piano, who worked on it for 12 years and changed the ...
MiC – Ministero della Cultura
Legge 77/2006 - Misure Speciali di Tutela e Fruizione dei Siti Italiani di Interesse Culturale, Paesaggistico e Ambientale, inseriti nella “Lista Del Patrimonio Mondiale”, posti sotto la Tutela dell’ UNESCO Regione Siciliana.
Assessorato dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana, Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana.
Parco archeologico della Valle dei Templi di Agrigento.
