The city's architectural heritage

An elegant - and slightly irreverent - reminder that the most precious things are often the most fleeting. Sunday the 17th is not just any Sunday: it is the one on which the city decides to take a step back in time. In the afternoon, the Baroque procession comes to life in the streets of the old town: a scenographic parade of hundreds of figures in 18th-century costumes, ladies, knights, musicians and flag-wavers, who recreate the atmosphere of the great noble families. A theatrical, almost cinematographic passageway that crosses the city and transforms it into an open-air stage, where time definitively ceases to be linear. Then all around, Noto does the rest and you are enraptured. Baroque palaces glow golden in the sunset, balconies become theatrical backdrops, and every corner seems designed to be photographed, but above all experienced. What to do is simple: arrive in no hurry, get lost without guilt, and let the flowers - fragile, spectacular, temporary - do all the work. At least for a weekend, beauty is not a detail, but the real agenda.