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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

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A museum to save a tradition

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Two illustrious patron saints

A talking palace

St. Sebastian, so much work!

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

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The colours of the cathedral

The Maiolica of the staircase

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The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

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Feasting in Palazzolo

A small room with a golden entrance

Some prestigious works

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

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A square as the heart of the city

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Wonderful quick decorations

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Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A miniature city

A colourful floor

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New roads for Catania

Searching for colour

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Discovering the mother church

The disastrous earthquake

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

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A half-Baroque church

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

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Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Norman apses

A triumph of colour

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The façade used as a puppet theatre

Some masterpieces

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

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A prominent church

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An eagle-shaped city

The Burgos crucifix

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

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A Nobel Prize in Modica

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The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

A long reconstruction

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Prominent façade

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A feast only for Scicli

The Staircase of Angels

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

A city in colour

Feast days

The Baroque town by the sea

A new site for a new church

The two churches

A symbol for the town

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

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A majestic and luminous church

Between white and black

One city, two sites

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The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The internal colours

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The interior and its masterpieces

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The chocolate of Modica

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Connections with other UNESCO sites