Church of Sant’Elia
The small church at Via Corrado Nicolaci 8, in the heart of Noto’s theatrical Baroque street.
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A discreet sacred presence along Noto’s most theatrical street
The Church of Sant’Elia stands at Via Corrado Nicolaci 8, in the heart of one of Noto’s most theatrical streets. Its presence belongs to the religious and monumental fabric of the city rebuilt after the 1693 earthquake.
History and architecture
A small religious building to be read through its construction details and its relationship with the urban fabric of Via Nicolaci.
One of the early presences of the new Noto
Catalogue documentation places the church between 1699 and 1700, in the years immediately after the 1693 earthquake and the foundation of the new city.
A design attributed to Francesco Landolina
The building represents a more intimate religious presence than Noto’s great monumental complexes and directly engages with the noble architecture of Via Nicolaci.
Limestone and load-bearing masonry
The building is described as having a regular grid of perimeter load-bearing walls in rubble masonry. Inside, arches rest on load-bearing wall sections made of squared limestone blocks.
A church within the urban stage
Its position at number 8 Via Corrado Nicolaci places the church within one of Noto’s most celebrated urban sequences, among Baroque palaces and the perspective terminating at the Church of Montevergini.
A place to be told through images
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Along Via Corrado Nicolaci
The church is located at number 8 Via Corrado Nicolaci. The website uses the name Sant’Elia, as confirmed by the Cathedral.
Via Corrado Nicolaci, 8
Noto (SR), Sicily
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A small church within the grand Baroque scene
Sant’Elia reveals a smaller-scale dimension of Noto’s rebuilding: masonry, limestone and devotion embedded in one of the city’s most spectacular streets.