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

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Different materials for different temperatures

A church decorated with infinite materials that make it wonderful and precious.
If we could touch the walls and decorations of the church, we would realise how much the temperature of one material can vary compared to another: the glass windows are very cold in winter, but much warmer in summer when heated by the sun; the blue, plaster decorations are much warmer than the marble columns of the aedicula where the statue of the saint is kept; and the saint, made of wood, is warmer than all those materials.

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The church with a blue interior

The church of San Giovanni Evangelista (St. John the Evangelist) features a splendid decoration with blue and gold stuccoes from a renovation in the mid-19th century.
The artist is one Giuseppe Sesta, as can be read from an inscription at the entrance which also bears the date 1861.
The blue of the decoration is like a ribbon that runs around and ties together the church walls, lit up from time to time by the golden stuccoes.
tela crocifisso di Burgos

A hall for the feasts

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

From International Gothic to present day

The colours of the cathedral

A miniature city

A museum to save a tradition

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

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

A talking palace

A square as the heart of the city

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Wonderful quick decorations

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The Baroque town by the sea

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Connections with other UNESCO sites

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The Burgos crucifix

The church of Carmine

A new site for a new church

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Prominent façade

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Many owners, one palace

Two illustrious patron saints

The senses tell the Mother Church of San Nicolò and of the Santissimo Salvatore

A city in colour

Feast days

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Some prestigious works

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

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A symbol for the town

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Between white and black

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The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Feasting in Palazzolo

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

The wall comes to life

A triumph of colour

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The internal colours

From the contrast of the exterior to the internal jubilation of colours

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

A long reconstruction

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A half-Baroque church

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The chocolate of Modica

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Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Discovering the mother church

A small room with a golden entrance

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The two churches

Some masterpieces

A new site for a new city

The interior and its masterpieces

The Maiolica of the staircase

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

Searching for colour

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A feast only for Scicli

The theatre of taste

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Freedom of worship and the role of the Catholic Church in the diffusion of Baroque

The façade used as a puppet theatre

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The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

A majestic and luminous church

A prominent church

An eagle-shaped city

The city of museums

A colourful floor

One city, three sites

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

New roads for Catania

One city, two sites

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The disastrous earthquake

The senses tell the Benedictine Monastery and San NicoIò l’Arena

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Norman apses

The Staircase of Angels

Church of San Giuliano (St. Julian) on Via dei Crociferi: reconstruction

The role of the religious orders in rebuilding the Val di Noto

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