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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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The Staircase of Angels

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

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Norman apses

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

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The Burgos crucifix

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A city in colour

Modica, a city with ancient origins

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Many owners, one palace

A long reconstruction

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

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A triumph of colour

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Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Connections with other UNESCO sites

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Two illustrious patron saints

The disastrous earthquake

A colourful floor

The chocolate of Modica

A prominent church

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

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Feasting in Palazzolo

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Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

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A museum to save a tradition

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

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The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Some prestigious works

Feast days

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A majestic and luminous church

The interior and its masterpieces

New roads for Catania

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

The wall comes to life

The two churches

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A new site for a new church

A miniature city

Discovering the mother church

The Baroque town by the sea

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An eagle-shaped city

The theatre of taste

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

The Maiolica of the staircase

One city, three sites

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A small room with a golden entrance

The colours of the cathedral

From International Gothic to present day

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The internal colours

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

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The façade used as a puppet theatre

Prominent façade

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

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Some masterpieces

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

Wonderful quick decorations