8. ART NOUVEAU ITINERARY

During the last decade of the 19th and the first decade of the 20th century Art Nouveau (in Italian "Stile Liberty") made inroads also in our region. The main impulse for this was unquestionably the Siracusa Art School, which produced a considerable number of sculptors and cabinet makers. By a strange coincidence, nearly all the most interesting works are to be found in smallish towns and villages on the façades of not overly large buildings whose middle-class owners, accepting the new style, gave its exponents free rein to express themselves with fancy and imagination.

SIRACUSA

Via Capodieci no. 33 and no. 45

AUGUSTA

Via XIV Ottobre no. 20

FLORIDIA

Piazza Marconi no. 24, Corso Vittorio Emanuele no. 331, Via Archimede no. 20, Via Pellico no. 117

PALAZZOLO ACREIDE

Via Carlo Alberto, Via Acre (note in particular no. 21), Via Marcello nos. 2 and 27, Via Nazionale no. 8, Corso Vittorio Emanuele no. 75

BUCCHERI

Corso Umberto no. 82, Piazza Toselli no. 12

CANICATTINI BAGNI

Via Vittorio Emanuele no. 251, Via XX Settembre nos. 54 and 119, Via Pellico no. 91, Via Umberto nos. 98 and 108, Via Regina Elena no. 37, Corso Garibaldi no. 121 (sculpted woman's head).

AVOLA

Corso Gaetano D'Agata no. 58, Via Pellico no. 1, Piazza Umberto I' no. 23 (the fine wrought iron balcony), Via Milano no. 14, Corso Vittorio Emanuele nos. 75 - 85 - 100 - 115, Via Santa Lucia no. 1, the Fontana dei Tre Leoni in Piazza Vittorio Veneto.

NOTO

Via Principe Umberto, Via S. La Rosa no. 15 (Cinema Benso), Piazza Municipio no. 8, Vico Carrozziere no. 9, Via G.L. Barbieri no. 72, Via Nicotera no. 16

ROSOLINI

Via Maddalena no. 8/e

PACHINO

Via Anita (corner of Via Ferruccio).