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The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

hearing
The mermaids’ song and the instruments’ music

The characteristic corbels of these balconies feature depictions of mermaids, musicians and musical instruments, including maracas, a flute and a trumpet.
Staring at us playfully from above, this small orchestra seems to draw our attention and invite us to enter the evocative building.
mensole sirena

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

Reconstruction after the earthquake

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The articulated interior spaces

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

The works in the church

The city palace

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

The palace, the town, the church

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

The interior and works of art

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

A casket of precious works

The casket of austerity under the great dome

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

A story of rebirth

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

A stone garden

The Franciscan convent

A heritage of votive works

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

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

Art in the cathedral

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

Religious architecture

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

The city within the city

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

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

The art of maiolica

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

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

The church and the monastery

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

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The Church of St. Francis

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The Church of St. Paul

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

The interior of the church: space and colour

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

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

The church and the college

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

The new roads of the city

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

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

The Palazzo dei due mori

The eagle-shaped city

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

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The Benedictines’ library

Altars, saints and sculptural works

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

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

St. Agatha and the candelore

City and nature

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

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The Church of St. Benedict

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

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

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

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

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

The two churches

Luminous sacred spaces

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

The Staircase of Angels

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

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

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

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

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

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The Church of Madonna della Stella

The expansion of space and changing reality

One city, three sites