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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

Modica, a city with ancient origins

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A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The Burgos crucifix

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

The interior and its masterpieces

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

New roads for Catania

A colourful floor

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Feast days

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Prominent façade

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A small room with a golden entrance

A museum to save a tradition

The two churches

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

The city of museums

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

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Limestone, the colour of harmony

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

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The Baroque town by the sea

A symbol for the town

The colours of the cathedral

Discovering the mother church

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

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A long reconstruction

Some prestigious works

A feast only for Scicli

A hall for the feasts

Norman apses

Many owners, one palace

St. Sebastian, so much work!

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A new site for a new church

The chocolate of Modica

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Connections with other UNESCO sites

Searching for colour

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The character of Badia Sant’Agata

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The theatre of taste

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The Staircase of Angels

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Some masterpieces

The wall comes to life

A majestic and luminous church

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

An eagle-shaped city

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A talking palace

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

Two illustrious patron saints

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

Feasting in Palazzolo

A new site for a new city

Between white and black

A miniature city

A half-Baroque church

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

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The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

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

A triumph of colour

A city in colour

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

One city, two sites

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The disastrous earthquake

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One city, three sites

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

From International Gothic to present day

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

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A square as the heart of the city

The church of Carmine

Wonderful quick decorations

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

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The Maiolica of the staircase

A prominent church

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The internal colours

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

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)