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The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

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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

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

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

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

The Benedictines’ library

The interior of the church: space and colour

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The Palazzo dei due mori

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

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

The two churches

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The eagle-shaped city

A heritage of votive works

Religious architecture

The city within the city

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

Luminous sacred spaces

A stone garden

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

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

A story of rebirth

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

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

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The articulated interior spaces

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The church and the college

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

The works in the church

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

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

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

Art in the cathedral

The Church of Madonna della Stella

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

The palace, the town, the church

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The Church of St. Benedict

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The interior and works of art

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

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

Altars, saints and sculptural works

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

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The art of maiolica

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The new roads of the city

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

The expansion of space and changing reality

A Nobel Prize in Modica

One city, three sites

The Franciscan convent

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

St. Agatha and the candelore

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

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

The casket of austerity under the great dome

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

The church and the monastery

The Staircase of Angels

The Church of St. Paul

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

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

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

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

The city palace

Reconstruction after the earthquake

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

City and nature

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

A casket of precious works

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

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

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

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

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

The Church of St. Francis