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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

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

A stone garden

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

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

The new roads of the city

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

The casket of austerity under the great dome

Altars, saints and sculptural works

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

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

The Staircase of Angels

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

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

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

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

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

The Church of St. Benedict

Art in the cathedral

The expansion of space and changing reality

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

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

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

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

The city within the city

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

The two churches

City and nature

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

Religious architecture

The interior and works of art

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

Luminous sacred spaces

A casket of precious works

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

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The art of maiolica

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The city palace

A heritage of votive works

The interior of the church: space and colour

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

A story of rebirth

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

St. Agatha and the candelore

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

The Church of Madonna della Stella

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

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

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The Benedictines’ library

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The church and the college

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

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

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

The eagle-shaped city

One city, three sites

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

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

The palace, the town, the church

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

Reconstruction after the earthquake

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

The Church of St. Francis

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

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The church and the monastery

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The Palazzo dei due mori

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

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

The works in the church

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The articulated interior spaces

The Franciscan convent

The Church of St. Paul

A unifying project for the city of Catania