Scicli

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.

Religious architecture

A Nobel Prize in Modica

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Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

The works in the church

A story of rebirth

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

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Virtuosity, decorations and altars

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

St. Agatha and the candelore

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

The articulated interior spaces

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

The Church of St. Benedict

Luminous sacred spaces

A casket of precious works

The casket of austerity under the great dome

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

The interior and works of art

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

The church and the monastery

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

The Franciscan convent

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

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

Reconstruction after the earthquake

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From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The Staircase of Angels

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

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

One city, three sites

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

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The Church of Madonna della Stella

A heritage of votive works

The eagle-shaped city

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

Altars, saints and sculptural works

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

The Palazzo dei due mori

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

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

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

The palace, the town, the church

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

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

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The expansion of space and changing reality

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

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

The interior of the church: space and colour

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Art in the cathedral

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The city palace

The art of maiolica

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

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The Benedictines’ library

The church and the college

The city within the city

A stone garden

The Church of St. Francis

The new roads of the city

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

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

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

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

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

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

The two churches

City and nature

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

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

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The Church of St. Paul

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics