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 NOTO

Noto is a town in baroque style. Built in the early 18th century exploiting and enhancing the natural gradients of Mt Meti, it is an urban centre of endless charm and was proclaimed a world heritage site by UNESCO in 2002. 

Several Sicilian architects participated in its design and the work of Paolo Labisi, Vincenzo Sinatra and Rosario Gagliardi created an incredibly spectacular and harmonious urban complex, where majestic buildings in local limestone, which over the years has developed a magnificent gilded and pink patina, alternate with many churches in a decorative triumph of friezes, capitals, volute, puttos and masks. Porta Reale, the church of San Francesco all'lmmacolata, Palazzo Ducezio, the basilica of the SS. Salvatore and the churchm of Santa Chiara are merely some of the attractions in a town where there is a treasure around every corner. 

Rising above the whole, of course, is the 18th century cathedral, the facade of which almost certainly the work of Sinatra - towers high on a majestic triple flight of steps. On 13 March 1996, the cathedral dome unfortunately collapsed, seriously damaging the nave.

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