Cathedral of S. Nicolò
In Corso Vittorio Emanuele. The Cathedral of S. Nicolò is the result of an overlapping of projects and renovations that have seen various architects at work over time (Rosario Gagliardi, Vincenzo Sinatra, Stefano Ittar, Bernardo Labisi). The large late Baroque sandstone facade is preceded by a staircase consisting of three flights dating back to the eighteenth century but renovated in the early nineteenth century. The façade, with two superimposed orders, the central part is characterized by 8 free-shaft columns and flanked on the sides by two bell towers. The second order is crowned by late eighteenth-century statues by Giuseppe Orlando from Catania. Of the three portals, the central one is in bronze and there are representations from the life of San Corrado, the work of Giuseppe Pirrone (1982). Antony Blunt (Sicilian Baroque - Milan 1968) related the facade of the mother church of Noto with that of the Notre-Dame church in Versailles, Marco Rosario Nobile (The mother churches of Sicily - Palermo 2000) points out how the central body of the facade is similar to the facade of the Saint Roch church in Paris. The interior has three naves flanked by Baroque chapels. At the end of the nave there is the chapel of S. Corrado where the relics are exhibited on the occasion of the celebrations of the patron saint. On March 13, 1996, one of the right pylons collapsed to the ground, dragging the entire right aisle, the central nave, the right transept, the triumphal arch and the dome with it, of which only a small one remained standing. part of the drum. In January 2000, after an initial phase of clearing the rubble, the restoration work began. The cathedral reopened to the public on June 18, 2007.
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