Regional routes

Baroque style after the earthquake. South-Eastern Sicily

• 1693: a disastrous earthquake
• Syracuse
• Acireale
• Modica
• Noto
• Caltagirone, Ferla, Ispica, Ragusa

The Baroque Quijote: Castilla La Mancha between fact and fiction

• A Baroque work that has marked the history of Spain
• On the trail of a damsel: Dulcinea of El Toboso
• The giants of La Mancha: Don Quixote and the windmills
• Cervantes in Alcázar de San Juan: a Baroque controversy
• The return of the Baroque era of Don Quijote: the feasts of Madridejos (Castilla La Mancha)

The Duke of Lerma and the places of his power

• Denia and the rise of its Marquis
• Lerma and the beginning of the valimiento
• Valladolid and the displacement of the court
• Ventosilla, the Plaza de San Pablo and the Casa de la Ribera
• Patron and Collector: Toledo, Valladolid and Madrid
• The Plaza Mayor of Madrid and the end of the government of the Duke
• The Baroque feasts in honor of the Duke of Lerma

Villas and Gardens in Baroque Lombardy

• Country villas and the Italian garden
• Isola Bella Borromeo and its palace
• Isola Bella Borromeo and its gardens
• Palazzo Arese Borromeo in Cesano Maderno
• Villa Visconti Borromeo Arese Litta in Lainate
• Eighteenth-century Lombard villas

Foundations of ladies and queens: feminine monasteries under royal patronage

• Centres of power and spirituality: convents in the Baroque period
• A foundation of Princess Juana: the Monastery of the Descalzas Reales
• The court in Valladolid and the convent of the Descalzas Reales
• The project of Queen Margaret: the Monastery of the Encarnación
• Imitating the royal family: the foundation of the Dukes of Olivares in Loeches

Salento

• Martina Franca
• Ostuni
• Mesagne
• Lecce
• The church of San Domenico in Nardò
• Galatone
• Maglie

The Spanish Plazas Mayores and the Baroque

• The origin and functions of the Plazas Mayores
• The reconstruction of the Plaza Mayor of Valladolid
• The Plaza Mayor of Madrid
• The Plaza de la Corredera of Cordoba
• The Plaza Mayor of Salamanca
• Other examples: Burgos and Plasencia

The Plazas de toros in Spain

• Features and functions of the bullring
• Béjar and Campofrío
• Plazas and Ermitas: La Parra and Almagro
• Plazas and Ermitas: Trucios, Puebla de Sancho Pérez and Medinilla
• Almadén and Ronda

Arabic History and Baroque Taste

• The Guadalete river and Arcos de la Frontera
• Santiago de Compostela
• Cordoba
• Granada and Jaén
• Murcia
• The Alpujarras and the difficult stay of the Moriscos
• The expulsion of the Moriscos
• Valencia

The Baroque in the province of L’Aquila

• Sulmona and the churches of Santa Chiara and San Gaetano
• Sulmona and the Abbey of Santo Spirito al Morrone
• Bugnara
• Scanno
• Pescocostanzo
• Castel di Sangro

Baroque organs in the Community of Madrid

• Different types of organs in the city and in the court of Madrid
• “Neapolitan” Baroque in the court of the Bourbons: the organ of Saint Barbara
• The “Echevarría” organ in the cathedral of Santa María Magdalena (Getafe, Madrid)
• The “Churrigueresco” organ in the church of San Salvador (Leganés, Madrid)
• The “Andalusian” Baroque organ of the church of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles
• The old organ of Nuestra Señora de los Remedios in Estremera (Madrid)

Calabria in the Baroque period

• Crotone
• Vibo Valentia
• Montalto Uffugo
• Serra San Bruno and Soriano Calabro
• Stilo
• Paola
• Cittanova and Catanzaro

Wars of Saints in Sicily

• A conflicting religiosity
• Palazzolo Acreide
• Vizzini
• Ragusa
• Modica