Ragusa

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 Santa Maria del Monte

The casket of austerity under the great dome

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The eagle-shaped city

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

Religious architecture

Reconstruction after the earthquake

The interior and works of art

The Church of Madonna della Stella

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

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The Franciscan convent

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

The interior of the church: space and colour

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

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

The articulated interior spaces

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

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

The works in the church

The city within the city

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The expansion of space and changing reality

The Staircase of Angels

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

A story of rebirth

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

Art in the cathedral

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

Luminous sacred spaces

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

A stone garden

A casket of precious works

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

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

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

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

The two churches

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

The art of maiolica

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

A heritage of votive works

The palace, the town, the church

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

The Benedictines’ library

The new roads of the city

The Palazzo dei due mori

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

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

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

The church and the monastery

Altars, saints and sculptural works

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

The city palace

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The Church of St. Francis

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

The church and the college

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

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

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

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

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

The Church of St. Paul

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

One city, three sites

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

City and nature

The Church of St. Benedict

St. Agatha and the candelore

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi