Palazzolo Acreide

The city of museums

Palazzolo Acreide is an active and eventful town.
In the town centre there are some interesting museums that tell the story of Palazzolo and new technology. For example, there is the Museo dell’Informatica Funzionante in Via Carnevale 17, founded by three organisations passionate about computer science.
At the museum, visitors both in person and remotely via the Internet can learn about the history of computer science, use historical computers and learn how they worked.
Another museum is the Museo dei Viaggiatori in Sicilia located in Palazzo Vaccaro. It is home to the engravings of artists and architects who over the centuries have drawn the monuments, costumes, natural phenomena and exotic plants of Sicily. Next is the Gabriele Judica Archaeological Museum in Palazzo Cappellani, which houses findings from the ancient Greek city of Akrai: vases, everyday objects, a Greek stele, ointments and prehistoric artefacts. Last but not least is the Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum .
 
Here, local tradition is housed inside the noble palace of the Ferla family.
In the museum you can find objects that document rural life: tools used by shepherds, furniture and everyday ceramics, figurines from nativity scenes, puppets and typical carts , veritable works of art of Sicilian craftsmanship.
 


Just outside the town centre you can visit the archaeological site of Akrai and the Santa Lucia Water Mill, managed by the Association for the Conservation of Hyblaean Popular Culture.

Church of San Giuliano (St. Julian) on Via dei Crociferi: reconstruction

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

An eagle-shaped city

A majestic and luminous church

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

A long reconstruction

The senses tell the story of the Badia di Sant’Agata

The Maiolica of the staircase

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Prominent façade

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Between white and black

One city, two sites

A prominent church

The interior and its masterpieces

The city of museums

The Burgos crucifix

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The senses tell the Benedictine Monastery and San NicoIò l’Arena

From the contrast of the exterior to the internal jubilation of colours

Two illustrious patron saints

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Some prestigious works

New roads for Catania

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giovanni Battista

A miniature city

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

From International Gothic to present day

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Giuliano ai Crociferi

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The Baroque town by the sea

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The church of Carmine

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

Freedom of worship and the role of the Catholic Church in the diffusion of Baroque

Discovering the mother church

A talking palace

A small room with a golden entrance

A feast only for Scicli

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A colourful floor

The Staircase of Angels

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The role of the religious orders in rebuilding the Val di Noto

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Many owners, one palace

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

One city, three sites

A triumph of colour

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The chocolate of Modica

A half-Baroque church

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Wonderful quick decorations

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

A city in colour

The disastrous earthquake

A new site for a new city

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The senses tell the story of the church of Santa Maria del Carmelo

Some masterpieces

The colours of the cathedral

Searching for colour

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A new site for a new church

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Feasting in Palazzolo

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The senses tell the Mother Church of San Nicolò and of the Santissimo Salvatore

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The theatre of taste

Feast days

A hall for the feasts

A square as the heart of the city

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Giovanni Evangelista

Norman apses

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The wall comes to life

The senses tell the story of the staircase of Santa Maria del Monte

The two churches

A museum to save a tradition

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The internal colours

A symbol for the town

The Barresi-Branciforte lords