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 small room with a golden entrance

Searching for colour

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A majestic and luminous church

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

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

A feast only for Scicli

A new site for a new church

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

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The wall comes to life

A colourful floor

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

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

The city of museums

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Feasting in Palazzolo

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A museum to save a tradition

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

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

The Staircase of Angels

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

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

One city, two sites

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

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The chocolate of Modica

Some masterpieces

New roads for Catania

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Many owners, one palace

A prominent church

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Prominent façade

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The disastrous earthquake

The two churches

A talking palace

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

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

A symbol for the town

A hall for the feasts

The interior and its masterpieces

The Baroque town by the sea

A long reconstruction

A miniature city

Some prestigious works

A new site for a new city

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

A city in colour

A Nobel Prize in Modica

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

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

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Two illustrious patron saints

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A triumph of colour

Wonderful quick decorations

The internal colours

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The Maiolica of the staircase

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

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The theatre of taste

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A half-Baroque church

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

From International Gothic to present day

The Burgos crucifix

Connections with other UNESCO sites

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

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

Modica, a city with ancient origins

An eagle-shaped city

The colours of the cathedral

Discovering the mother church

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Feast days

The church of Carmine

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

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Between white and black

Norman apses

A square as the heart of the city

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

One city, three sites

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto