Many churches were built throughout the country. Four of them were inscribed as World Heritage in 1993. The churches have survived several earthquakes and wars, and are known as "Earthquake Baroque" ...

In the church music written for St Mark's in Venice by Giovanni Gabrieli and later ... to describe extravagance or irregularity, the word Baroque has come to define a period in music in which ...

Modica is an astonishing sight, clinging as it does to the walls of a canyon in a swarming mass of ochre houses crowned with baroque churches. This is a place where 18 th-century architecture ...