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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 Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

A heritage of votive works

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

Altars, saints and sculptural works

The Benedictines’ library

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

The church and the college

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

Luminous sacred spaces

The eagle-shaped city

The city palace

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

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

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

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The casket of austerity under the great dome

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

The Church of St. Paul

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

The works in the church

The expansion of space and changing reality

The interior of the church: space and colour

The two churches

The palace, the town, the church

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

The city within the city

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

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The Staircase of Angels

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The church and the monastery

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

One city, three sites

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

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

Religious architecture

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

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The interior and works of art

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

A stone garden

The new roads of the city

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

The articulated interior spaces

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

Reconstruction after the earthquake

A casket of precious works

City and nature

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

The Palazzo dei due mori

The Church of St. Benedict

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

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

The art of maiolica

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

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

St. Agatha and the candelore

The Church of Madonna della Stella

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

The Church of St. Francis

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

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

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

A story of rebirth

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

Art in the cathedral

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

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

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

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

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

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

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

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

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The Franciscan convent

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque