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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

Searching for colour

The disastrous earthquake

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The internal colours

A colourful floor

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The theatre of taste

A feast only for Scicli

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Some masterpieces

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A half-Baroque church

The chocolate of Modica

A small room with a golden entrance

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The senses tell the story of the church of Santa Maria del Carmelo

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The two churches

A new site for a new city

A talking palace

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

A museum to save a tradition

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Feast days

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

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

A long reconstruction

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

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

One city, three sites

A prominent church

The church of Carmine

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A city in colour

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The Maiolica of the staircase

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giovanni Battista

One city, two sites

A Nobel Prize in Modica

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Wonderful quick decorations

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Discovering the mother church

Feasting in Palazzolo

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

From International Gothic to present day

Some prestigious works

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

A square as the heart of the city

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The Staircase of Angels

A miniature city

The colours of the cathedral

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

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

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A new site for a new church

Prominent façade

Many owners, one palace

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The Baroque town by the sea

Between white and black

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A majestic and luminous church

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The wall comes to life

Norman apses

A hall for the feasts

The city of museums

New roads for Catania

The Burgos crucifix

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

An eagle-shaped city

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

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

The interior and its masterpieces

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

A triumph of colour

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

Two illustrious patron saints

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

A symbol for the town