Modica

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

sight
Staircases and panoramas

The staircase of San Giorgio, besides being an important link between the upper and lower cities of Modica, is one of the best panoramic places where you can fully appreciate the city’s urban structure. A scenographic point that establishes a visual union between the two ridges where the city stands.
Scalinate e panorami

hearing
Melodies from the church

On a visit to the Cathedral of San Giorgio you can still appreciate the notes from the four keyboards, eighty stops and three thousand pipes of the monumental church organ designed by Casimiro Allieri, which still works today and is used for the most important liturgical celebrations. It is an instrument with a scenic architectural structure and exceptional sound quality that offers a sensory experience still appreciated today in a very sacred place.
dettaglio canne organo organo

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

Art in the cathedral

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

The Church of St. Benedict

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

A stone garden

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

A story of rebirth

City and nature

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

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

The new roads of the city

The Benedictines’ library

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

The palace, the town, the church

The art of maiolica

One city, three sites

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

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The city within the city

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The church and the college

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

The expansion of space and changing reality

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

The works in the church

Reconstruction after the earthquake

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

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

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

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The Staircase of Angels

A casket of precious works

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

The Church of St. Paul

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

The articulated interior spaces

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

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

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

Luminous sacred spaces

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

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

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

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

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

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

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

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

Religious architecture

The Church of Madonna della Stella

The two churches

Altars, saints and sculptural works

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The Church of St. Francis

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

The casket of austerity under the great dome

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

The eagle-shaped city

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

A heritage of votive works

St. Agatha and the candelore

The city palace

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

The Palazzo dei due mori

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

The interior and works of art

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

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

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The interior of the church: space and colour

The church and the monastery

The Franciscan convent

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble