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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.

City and nature

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

A story of rebirth

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

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

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

St. Agatha and the candelore

The Church of St. Benedict

The interior of the church: space and colour

The interior and works of art

The new roads of the city

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

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

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

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

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

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

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

The Church of St. Paul

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

One city, three sites

The Franciscan convent

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The two churches

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The casket of austerity under the great dome

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

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The works in the church

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

The Staircase of Angels

The eagle-shaped city

The city within the city

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

Luminous sacred spaces

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

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

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

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Altars, saints and sculptural works

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

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The city palace

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A heritage of votive works

A casket of precious works

The Church of St. Francis

The Church of Madonna della Stella

The art of maiolica

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

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

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

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

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

The Palazzo dei due mori

Religious architecture

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The expansion of space and changing reality

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

The articulated interior spaces

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

The Benedictines’ library

The church and the monastery

The palace, the town, the church

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

A stone garden

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

Reconstruction after the earthquake

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

The church and the college

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

Art in the cathedral

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion