Baroque itineraries of Sicily: Baroque of Scicli
Scicli extends over a large plain set within three narrow and recessed valleys called "cave" (the valleys of Modica, Santa Maria La Nova, and San Bartolomeo), carved out by torrential waterways. The city is 6 km from the sea and thanks to its baroque testimonies it has been included in the Unesco Heritage list within the site “The late Baroque cities of the Val di Noto”.
Unesco document n ° 1024rev, in the part concerning the description of Scicli reports:
"SCICLI: the Via Francesco Mormina Penna stretches to the nearby Benevento palace, perhaps the only one in Sicily to display fantastic decoration, in an urban setting where churches rise alongside patrician buildings of late Baroque age. Three churches (St John the Evangelist, St Michael, and Saint Teresa) are from the 18th century. "
The Church of S. Giovanni Evangelista, the Church of S. Michele Arcangelo, the Church of S. Teresa are explicitly mentioned. Via Francesco Mormina Penna and the Palaces of the late Baroque age are mentioned, which we can identify, albeit indirectly, with the Spadaro and Veneziano Sgarlata palaces.
We have cataloged, georeferenced and described 10 Baroque monuments of Scicli dividing them into 4 groups according to the location, we have entered the routes into the Sicilian Cultural Heritage database.
Church of San Giovanni Evangelista
Palazzo Spadaro
Church of St. Michael the Archangel
Venetian Palace Sgarlata
Church of Santa Teresa
Church and Convent of the Carmine
Palace Benevento
Mother Church (S Guglielmo)
Palazzo Fava
Church of St. Bartholomew
Below is the link to the geo-referenced files. For each monument, in addition to a brief description, the route to reach it is indicated, we invite you to visit the pages with the tourist itineraries:
First Group: Via Mormino Penna
