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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.

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

St. Agatha and the candelore

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

Religious architecture

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

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

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

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

The city palace

The articulated interior spaces

Art in the cathedral

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

A story of rebirth

A stone garden

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The Franciscan convent

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

A heritage of votive works

The Church of St. Francis

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

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

The casket of austerity under the great dome

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

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The church and the college

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

The church and the monastery

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

A casket of precious works

The Church of St. Benedict

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

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

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The works in the church

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

The interior and works of art

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The art of maiolica

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

A Nobel Prize in Modica

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

The Staircase of Angels

The city within the city

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

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

The eagle-shaped city

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

Luminous sacred spaces

The two churches

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The expansion of space and changing reality

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

A unifying project for the city of Catania

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

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

Reconstruction after the earthquake

The interior of the church: space and colour

The Church of Madonna della Stella

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

City and nature

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

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

Altars, saints and sculptural works

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

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

The palace, the town, the church

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

The Palazzo dei due mori

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

The Church of St. Paul

The Benedictines’ library

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

The new roads of the city

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

One city, three sites

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata