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The senses tell the Church of San Michele

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Stuccoes, floors and geometric decorations

The interior of the church is defined by numerous decorations featuring a geometric design. For example, the floor is made with two-tone tiles and is inscribed within the elliptical plan.
The apsidal vault is decorated with small octagons, and the frescoes on the vault are divided by bands that echo the pattern of the small octagons on the apsidal vault.
It is interesting to note how all these geometric elements, with their simple shapes, give a sense of order within the dynamic spatiality typical of Baroque church interiors.

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

One city, three sites

The two churches

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The palace, the town, the church

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

The eagle-shaped city

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

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

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

The Church of St. Francis

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

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

The casket of austerity under the great dome

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

The Palazzo dei due mori

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A stone garden

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

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The Franciscan convent

A heritage of votive works

A unifying project for the city of Catania

Altars, saints and sculptural works

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

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

Art in the cathedral

St. Agatha and the candelore

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

A story of rebirth

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

City and nature

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

The art of maiolica

Reconstruction after the earthquake

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

The city palace

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The Church of St. Paul

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A casket of precious works

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

The interior of the church: space and colour

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

Luminous sacred spaces

The new roads of the city

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

The church and the college

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

The Church of St. Benedict

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

The church and the monastery

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

The Benedictines’ library

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

Religious architecture

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

The works in the church

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

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

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

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

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

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

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Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

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 dynamics of the Church of San Michele

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

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

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

The expansion of space and changing reality

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

The articulated interior spaces

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

The Church of Madonna della Stella

The Staircase of Angels

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The interior and works of art

The city within the city

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