Luogo - Religious building
Chiesa e Convento di Santa Maria del Gesù
Where
Via Carceri, 361, Modica (Ragusa)
St. Mary of Jesus's Church (1478-1481) and adjoining Convent (1478-1520) were declared National Monument shortly fter Unification of Italy. Inside is a beautiful cloister with two orders in late Gothic style, with columns decorated differently and each one different, unique in all of southern Italy, which has stylistic examples surviving in Catalonia. Complex can be visited with limitations, as it is home prison since 1865. However, it is always visible prospectus of the Church, in Gothic style with Catalans influences.
