The Duomo of San Giorgio (English: Cathedral of St George) is a

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church in

Modica Modica (; ) is a city and municipality (''comune'') in the Province of Ragusa, Sicily, southern Italy. The city is situated in the Hyblaean Mountains. It has 53,413 inhabitants. Modica has neolithic origins and it represents the historical cap ...

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, Sicily, Italy. It is the mother church of the city and is included in the World Heritage List by UNESCO. The building is the final result of the Sicilian Baroque#from 1693, eighteenth-century reconstruction which took place following the disastrous earthquakes that struck Modica in 1542, 1613, and 1693 Sicily earthquake, 1693. Reconstruction began in 1702 and ended in 1738. Further work was done until the affixing of the iron cross on the spire in 1842, which marked the definitive appearance of the church. According to art historian Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco, the church should be included among "the seven wonders of the baroque world".Nifosì, Paolo. ''Oro barocco''. Ragusa : Nonsolografica, 2006.

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