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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

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The two churches

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A talking palace

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

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

A new site for a new city

A museum to save a tradition

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The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A long reconstruction

The chocolate of Modica

A square as the heart of the city

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

Discovering the mother church

A miniature city

A half-Baroque church

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

An eagle-shaped city

The internal colours

The Maiolica of the staircase

One city, two sites

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Searching for colour

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The Staircase of Angels

Feast days

Feasting in Palazzolo

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

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A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The wall comes to life

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A symbol for the town

Two illustrious patron saints

The theatre of taste

A majestic and luminous church

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Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The colours of the cathedral

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

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A triumph of colour

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

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A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

Prominent façade

Wonderful quick decorations

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

New roads for Catania

A hall for the feasts

The façade used as a puppet theatre

A feast only for Scicli

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The city of museums

St. Sebastian, so much work!

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

One city, three sites

A small room with a golden entrance

Many owners, one palace

Some masterpieces

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A new site for a new church

The disastrous earthquake

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

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

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From International Gothic to present day

Between white and black

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

A prominent church

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

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

Some prestigious works

A colourful floor

The church of Carmine

The interior and its masterpieces

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

A city in colour

Norman apses

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The Burgos crucifix

The Baroque town by the sea

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

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers