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.

A colourful floor

Feasting in Palazzolo

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

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

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The chocolate of Modica

The Maiolica of the staircase

A hall for the feasts

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

One city, two sites

Some prestigious works

The colours of the cathedral

A long reconstruction

New roads for Catania

Norman apses

A triumph of colour

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The Baroque town by the sea

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

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

A miniature city

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Discovering the mother church

A new site for a new city

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A museum to save a tradition

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

The theatre of taste

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

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Two illustrious patron saints

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A symbol for the town

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The Burgos crucifix

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The disastrous earthquake

An eagle-shaped city

The church of Carmine

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

A small room with a golden entrance

A majestic and luminous church

The two churches

A square as the heart of the city

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

A half-Baroque church

From International Gothic to present day

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

A prominent church

One city, three sites

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The internal colours

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

Many owners, one palace

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The interior and its masterpieces

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

Some masterpieces

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

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

A feast only for Scicli

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Prominent façade

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

Between white and black

A city in colour

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Searching for colour

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The Staircase of Angels

Wonderful quick decorations

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A talking palace

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

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

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The city of museums

A new site for a new church

Feast days

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

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

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

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The wall comes to life

The façade used as a puppet theatre

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph