Catania

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

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The illusion of marble: marble stucco

Marble stucco is an ancient technique that tends to imitate marble and is far cheaper.
The finish of this type of stucco can be of such high quality that it is indistinguishable from natural marble.

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The illusion of movement

The interior of the church creates a continuously moving illusory effect thanks to some of its characteristic elements: the lateral arcades, the vault and the apse arcade seems to bring the gaze towards the altar.
With its countless stuccoes and frescoes, the vault creates the sensation of participating in a whirling motion where art and architecture interact.
Nothing seems motionless in this space and there is a continuous tension throughout.

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

The art of maiolica

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The eagle-shaped city

A stone garden

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The Palazzo dei due mori

The works in the church

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

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

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

The Franciscan convent

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Luminous sacred spaces

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

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

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

The church and the monastery

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

Reconstruction after the earthquake

The new roads of the city

The casket of austerity under the great dome

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

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

Art in the cathedral

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

The articulated interior spaces

The Church of St. Francis

The interior of the church: space and colour

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

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

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

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

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

The city palace

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

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

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

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

The palace, the town, the church

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

The city within the city

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

The two churches

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

A casket of precious works

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The Church of St. Paul

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The Church of Madonna della Stella

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

The Benedictines’ library

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The Staircase of Angels

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

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

St. Agatha and the candelore

A heritage of votive works

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

One city, three sites

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

The expansion of space and changing reality

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

City and nature

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

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

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A story of rebirth

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

The interior and works of art

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

The Church of St. Benedict

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

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

Religious architecture

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

The church and the college

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

Altars, saints and sculptural works

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

A unifying project for the city of Catania

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