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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

Art in the cathedral

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

The Franciscan convent

The eagle-shaped city

A heritage of votive works

A stone garden

A story of rebirth

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

The Church of Madonna della Stella

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

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

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

Reconstruction after the earthquake

The casket of austerity under the great dome

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

St. Agatha and the candelore

The two churches

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

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

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

A unifying project for the city of Catania

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The interior and works of art

One city, three sites

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

The articulated interior spaces

The Benedictines’ library

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

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

The interior of the church: space and colour

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

Luminous sacred spaces

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

The Church of St. Benedict

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The church and the college

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

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

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

The Staircase of Angels

The art of maiolica

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

Religious architecture

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

The Palazzo dei due mori

The new roads of the city

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

Altars, saints and sculptural works

City and nature

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The Church of St. Paul

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

The city palace

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

The church and the monastery

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

The palace, the town, the church

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The city within the city

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

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

The works in the church

The Church of St. Francis

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

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

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

A casket of precious works

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

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

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

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

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

The expansion of space and changing reality

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