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.

New roads for Catania

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A half-Baroque church

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A triumph of colour

The Burgos crucifix

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

A square as the heart of the city

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The wall comes to life

One city, three sites

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Some masterpieces

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

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

A colourful floor

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

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

The church of Carmine

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The Staircase of Angels

The colours of the cathedral

A talking palace

Feasting in Palazzolo

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The theatre of taste

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

A symbol for the town

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Some prestigious works

A hall for the feasts

The disastrous earthquake

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The Maiolica of the staircase

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

A new site for a new city

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

The interior and its masterpieces

The two churches

A miniature city

A museum to save a tradition

One city, two sites

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

Norman apses

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

The Baroque town by the sea

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

Many owners, one palace

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

From International Gothic to present day

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

A small room with a golden entrance

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Limestone, the colour of harmony

An eagle-shaped city

A city in colour

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

Between white and black

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A prominent church

A feast only for Scicli

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

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

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Wonderful quick decorations

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Searching for colour

A new site for a new church

The chocolate of Modica

Feast days

Discovering the mother church

A majestic and luminous church

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

Modica, a city with ancient origins

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

A long reconstruction

Prominent façade

The internal colours

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

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The city of museums

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Two illustrious patron saints

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso