The senses tell the Benedictine Monastery and San NicoIò l’Arena
The smallest Greek theatre in the world
Views denied, views conquered: the power of the devout Benedictines
San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church
The Staircase of Angels
Prominent façade
The senses tell the Benedictine Monastery and the Church of San Nicolò l’Arena
New roads for Catania
The colours of the cathedral
The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces
The city within the city
The church and the monastery
Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin
Searching for colour
The Badia di Sant’Agata (St. Agatha’s Abbey)
The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi
The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano
The interior and works of art
The Church of Madonna della Stella
The senses tell the story of the Church of San Carlo and the former Jesuit college
Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape
The Church of St. Francis
The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara
A unifying project for the city of Catania
The Staircase of Angels
The Church of St. John the Evangelist
The Church of St. Paul
The senses tell the story of the staircase of Santa Maria del Monte
The dynamics of the Church of San Michele
Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto
The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto
Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town
St. Sebastian, so much work!
A new palace for the La Rocca lords
Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo
The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro
The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara
St. Agatha and the giant candelabras
Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom
A square as the heart of the city
Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico
Limestone, the colour of harmony
City and nature
The senses tell the story of the Church of San Giuliano ai Crociferi
A prominent church
A new site for a new city
A feast only for Scicli
A stone garden
The senses tell the Mother Church of San Nicolò and of the Santissimo Salvatore
A museum to save a tradition
The Palazzo dei due mori
The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)
A half-Baroque church
The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona
A miniature city
The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca
The interior of the church: space and colour
The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers
The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe
The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours
Modica, a city with ancient origins
Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century
The senses tell the story of the Church of the Badia di Sant’Agata
The articulated interior spaces
The Maiolica of the staircase
The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco
The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition
Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family
The two churches
The Church of St. Benedict
The Franciscan convent
Norman apses
The senses tell the story of the church of Santa Maria del Carmelo
The illusion of light and the decorative splendour
The new roads of the city
Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix
Baroque creativity: recurring themes
Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?
One city, three sites
From St. Thomas to St. Joseph
Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century
Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights
The city palace
A Nobel Prize in Modica
Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha
The theatre of taste
The Baroque town by the sea
The internal colours
The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction
The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata
A hall for the feasts
The church and the college
A symbol for the town
Piazza Duomo, the elephant fountain, the heart of the city
The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns
Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library
The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio
Wonderful quick decorations
Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao
Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral
Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family
The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism
The church of Carmine
The senses tell the story of the Church of San Giovanni Evangelista
The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics
Virtuosity, decorations and altars
Verticality and dynamism of the façade of the Church of San Carlo
A new site for the church of San Giorgio
A story of rebirth
The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception
The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano
The senses tell the story of the Church of San Giuliano ai Crociferi
The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout
The chocolate of Modica
The Duomo di San Giorgio (Cathedral of St. George)
The neo-Gothic seminary chapel: symbols, light and space
The church of San Nicolò l’Arena: the majesty of an unfinished beauty
The senses tell the story of the Church of San Giovanni Evangelista
A small room with a golden entrance
A colourful floor
The art of maiolica
Altars, saints and sculptural works
The senses tell the Church of San Domenico
A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque
From the contrast of the exterior to the internal jubilation of colours
The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo
A talking palace
The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento
The character of Badia Sant’Agata
Church of San Giuliano (St. Julian) on Via dei Crociferi: reconstruction
The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci
Some masterpieces
The Barresi-Branciforte lords
The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Maria del Monte
A triumph of colour
The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain
The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto
Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo
A majestic and luminous church
From International Gothic to present day
The Burgos crucifix
A Nobel Prize in Modica
Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town
The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria
The city of museums
Discovering the mother church
Connections with other UNESCO sites
The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio
Freedom of worship and the role of the Catholic Church in the diffusion of Baroque
The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio
Two illustrious patron saints
Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration
A heritage of votive works
The eagle-shaped city
The freedom of worship and the Catholic Church’s role in the diffusion of Baroque
St. Agatha and the candelore
The senses tell the story of the Sanctuary Church of Santa Maria della Stella
The senses tell the Church of San Michele
The two churches
A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)
An eagle-shaped city
The expansion of space and changing reality
The senses tell the story of the Badia di Sant’Agata
The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata
From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble
San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work
A casket of precious works
Art in the cathedral
The role of the religious orders in rebuilding the Val di Noto
A new site for a new church
Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors
Between white and black
The Benedictines’ library
Barresi-Branciforte: the lords of the fiefdom and the modernisation of the town
Feasting in Palazzolo
One city, three sites
The wall comes to life
A design by Vincenzo Sinatra
The senses tell the story of the church of San Giovanni Battista
Reconstruction after the earthquake
The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso
Religious architecture
San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public
Many owners, one palace
The façade used as a puppet theatre
Luminous sacred spaces
The palace, the town, the church
A city in colour
Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto
The casket of austerity under the great dome
Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery
The disastrous earthquake
The interior and its masterpieces
One city, two sites
The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion
Geometry and wonder in civic architecture in the Baroque of the Val di Noto
The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe
Feast days
The works in the church
Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom
Some prestigious works
The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum
Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond
A long reconstruction
The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation
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.
