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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 senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Between white and black

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

Feast days

The chocolate of Modica

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

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Some masterpieces

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A feast only for Scicli

Discovering the mother church

Searching for colour

A hall for the feasts

The wall comes to life

Modica, a city with ancient origins

A colourful floor

The Maiolica of the staircase

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A new site for a new church

The Burgos crucifix

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

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The disastrous earthquake

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A city in colour

The colours of the cathedral

Two illustrious patron saints

The Baroque town by the sea

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

Wonderful quick decorations

The internal colours

From International Gothic to present day

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

A prominent church

Connections with other UNESCO sites

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Limestone, the colour of harmony

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Some prestigious works

The city of museums

A talking palace

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

New roads for Catania

Many owners, one palace

One city, three sites

A museum to save a tradition

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A small room with a golden entrance

A triumph of colour

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The theatre of taste

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

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

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

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

A new site for a new city

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The interior and its masterpieces

Norman apses

A square as the heart of the city

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

A symbol for the town

A long reconstruction

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The two churches

The church of Carmine

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The façade used as a puppet theatre

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

A miniature city

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St. Sebastian, so much work!

One city, two sites

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

An eagle-shaped city

The Staircase of Angels

A majestic and luminous church

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

Prominent façade

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Feasting in Palazzolo

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

A half-Baroque church

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