Itineraries "The places of the Baroque"  

from  9:00 am to 18:00 pm

 

 

 

Ragusa

Cathedral of St. John and the Bertini Palace (from outside) with its gargoyles.Ragusa Ibla - Old Portale di San Giorgio, Iblei Gardens with San Giacomo’s and Cappuccini’s (from outside) Churches, San Giuseppe’s, Arezzo Donnafugata Palace (from outside), Circolo di Conversazione, San Giorgio’s Cathedral, Madonna dell’Itria‘s Curche.

 

 

Modica

San Giorgio’s Cathedral with its imposing goblet-shaped stairway, a stroll through the medieval quarters from which you can have a glance of the ancient Earls’Castle, poet S. Quasimodo's birthplace (outside), Bètlem’s church with its outstanding Cabrera chapel (to which the church owes its name of national monument), San Domenico’s, a stroll through corso Umberto or u saluni (the living) for Modica people, to admire San Pietro’s Church the baroque palaces decorated with ornaments and gargoyles

 

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Scicli

The ancient Via del Corso of Scicli is a significant example of the broader phenomenon of urban shift that affects the old town of the town, which over time developed from the hills to the plains below. On the whole town - where architecture and nature are to be considered in real symbiosis - Scicli is a settlement pattern that starts from the top of the hill fortress of St. Matthew, and goes down along the slopes of the Iblean mounts. They develop with characteristics of absolute uniqueness at a low level. The town is well placed in spectacular way in three "caves" of the river of Modica, of Santa Maria la Nova and St. Bartolomeo.

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Noto 

 

The urban Noto is, as a whole, as far more representative of urban civilization after the earthquake. It is indeed a town entirely attributable to the late Baroque, rebuilt from scratch with absolute uniqueness of timing and patterns at a different site from the original, abandoned by its inhabitants. It is a rare case of planned city all together, the design of which - with regard to the monumental aspect - has been attributed with reasonable certainty to the great architect and engineer Jesuit Angelo Italy.

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Caltagirone

 

The urban fabric of Caltagirone is emblematic of the phenomenon of continuity that can be read, despite the earthquakes in some towns of the Val di Noto. Although partially redrawn after the 1693 earthquake, nearly intact medieval imprint, on which is grafted so the original seventeenth-century crux viarum. Of the two roads that characterize the cross roads, spatially dominates in the north-south direction, whose centerpiece is the spectacular and high steps of Santa Maria del Monte. It is a road that, for the extraordinary altimetrical  structure enhanced by Baroque configuration, becomes a representative element of the urban Caltagirone.

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