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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

A symbol for the town

The Maiolica of the staircase

A new site for a new church

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The wall comes to life

Connections with other UNESCO sites

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

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Two illustrious patron saints

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

A triumph of colour

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

The colours of the cathedral

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

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The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A long reconstruction

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

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Limestone, the colour of harmony

Discovering the mother church

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A feast only for Scicli

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

The Staircase of Angels

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The city of museums

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Norman apses

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The Burgos crucifix

The two churches

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A small room with a golden entrance

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Wonderful quick decorations

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Searching for colour

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

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One city, three sites

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Many owners, one palace

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Prominent façade

The interior and its masterpieces

St. Sebastian, so much work!

One city, two sites

A half-Baroque church

Some masterpieces

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The chocolate of Modica

The disastrous earthquake

The Baroque town by the sea

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

New roads for Catania

Feast days

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

From International Gothic to present day

A majestic and luminous church

Between white and black

A colourful floor

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

A museum to save a tradition

A new site for a new city

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

Feasting in Palazzolo

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

A miniature city

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

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The theatre of taste

An eagle-shaped city

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

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

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A city in colour

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

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The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A square as the heart of the city

A hall for the feasts

A talking palace

Some prestigious works

The church of Carmine

The internal colours

A prominent church

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

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