Modica

A Nobel Prize in Modica

palazzo quasimodoBetween period buildings, cathedrals and churches, Modica offers its citizens and tourists a place of memory.
This idea comes from the bond that exists between the Hyblaean city and an illustrious poet. On 20 August 1901, Salvatore Quasimodo was born in Modica. He was one of the most important poets and translators of Italian literature.
Quasimodo wrote works of great value that led him to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959.
Hence the idea to restore the house where the poet was born and turn it into a birthplace museum dedicated to him.
The Museo Casa Natale Salvatore Quasimodo (Salvatore Quasimodo Birthplace Museum) offers the chance to see the room where the Italian poet saw the first light of day, and much more! In fact, there are also collections of many of the objects that belonged to Salvatore Quasimodo, including some photographs and furniture from his Milan studio.
This is an opportunity to get to know an illustrious poet and come into contact with the reality of a bygone era that is increasingly distant from us. Targa Salvatore Quasimodo

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

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

A symbol for the town

The two churches

A half-Baroque church

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

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

New roads for Catania

The chocolate of Modica

Discovering the mother church

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The Staircase of Angels

Searching for colour

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

A majestic and luminous church

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

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

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The city of museums

The church of Carmine

A museum to save a tradition

A feast only for Scicli

Some prestigious works

One city, two sites

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A talking palace

The disastrous earthquake

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

A small room with a golden entrance

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A prominent church

Wonderful quick decorations

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The Maiolica of the staircase

The Baroque town by the sea

Many owners, one palace

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

An eagle-shaped city

The façade used as a puppet theatre

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

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

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

Feast days

Some masterpieces

From International Gothic to present day

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A miniature city

Prominent façade

A new site for a new city

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A colourful floor

The colours of the cathedral

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

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

A hall for the feasts

Norman apses

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

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

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

The interior and its masterpieces

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

A city in colour

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Two illustrious patron saints

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The internal colours

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

A long reconstruction

Between white and black

The wall comes to life

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Feasting in Palazzolo

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A square as the heart of the city

St. Sebastian, so much work!

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

A triumph of colour

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A new site for a new church

The Burgos crucifix

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The theatre of taste

One city, three sites