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 city in colour

One city, two sites

A museum to save a tradition

A talking palace

One city, three sites

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A symbol for the town

Between white and black

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Searching for colour

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The Baroque town by the sea

The façade used as a puppet theatre

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

A square as the heart of the city

A new site for a new city

St. Sebastian, so much work!

A hall for the feasts

A new site for a new church

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

A miniature city

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

A small room with a golden entrance

The Maiolica of the staircase

An eagle-shaped city

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A long reconstruction

From International Gothic to present day

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The two churches

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

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

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

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

The church of Carmine

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

A half-Baroque church

Discovering the mother church

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Feasting in Palazzolo

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The colours of the cathedral

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

Two illustrious patron saints

New roads for Catania

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Feast days

Norman apses

The internal colours

The interior and its masterpieces

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

A majestic and luminous church

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

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

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

Wonderful quick decorations

A prominent church

The theatre of taste

The Staircase of Angels

Some prestigious works

Connections with other UNESCO sites

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

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

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

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

A colourful floor

Prominent façade

Some masterpieces

A triumph of colour

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

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The city of museums

The disastrous earthquake

Many owners, one palace

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The Burgos crucifix

A feast only for Scicli

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The wall comes to life

The chocolate of Modica