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.

The Baroque town by the sea

The internal colours

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

An eagle-shaped city

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The church of Carmine

The theatre of taste

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

Wonderful quick decorations

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A miniature city

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

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

St. Sebastian, so much work!

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Discovering the mother church

The city of museums

A square as the heart of the city

A majestic and luminous church

A half-Baroque church

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The disastrous earthquake

A prominent church

The two churches

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

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

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

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

A museum to save a tradition

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

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

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

A feast only for Scicli

One city, three sites

A colourful floor

Some prestigious works

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A triumph of colour

Some masterpieces

The wall comes to life

The colours of the cathedral

A symbol for the town

Feast days

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Two illustrious patron saints

From International Gothic to present day

The chocolate of Modica

The Staircase of Angels

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

The Burgos crucifix

Feasting in Palazzolo

The Maiolica of the staircase

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The interior and its masterpieces

A hall for the feasts

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

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

Norman apses

One city, two sites

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

Searching for colour

A city in colour

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A long reconstruction

Many owners, one palace

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Between white and black

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

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

A new site for a new church

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

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

A small room with a golden entrance

A talking palace

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Prominent façade

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A new site for a new city

New roads for Catania

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation