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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

The city of museums

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

A symbol for the town

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The internal colours

A talking palace

A feast only for Scicli

The church of Carmine

The wall comes to life

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The Staircase of Angels

The two churches

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

An eagle-shaped city

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Feast days

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The Maiolica of the staircase

Some masterpieces

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The colours of the cathedral

One city, three sites

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Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

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A city in colour

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

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

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Norman apses

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The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Searching for colour

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

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

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Modica, a city with ancient origins

A colourful floor

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Two illustrious patron saints

A hall for the feasts

A long reconstruction

The Baroque town by the sea

Some prestigious works

A new site for a new city

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A new site for a new church

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Discovering the mother church

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

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A prominent church

Between white and black

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

Many owners, one palace

A Nobel Prize in Modica

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

Prominent façade

The Burgos crucifix

Feasting in Palazzolo

A triumph of colour

New roads for Catania

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

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

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Wonderful quick decorations

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A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A small room with a golden entrance

The interior and its masterpieces

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

A half-Baroque church

The disastrous earthquake

A majestic and luminous church

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The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The theatre of taste

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A miniature city

One city, two sites

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

From International Gothic to present day

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A square as the heart of the city

A museum to save a tradition

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

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The chocolate of Modica