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 wall comes to life

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A talking palace

Between white and black

The Burgos crucifix

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

Feast days

Connections with other UNESCO sites

Some prestigious works

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

A miniature city

A new site for a new city

A symbol for the town

The Baroque town by the sea

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

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

The Maiolica of the staircase

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The theatre of taste

Feasting in Palazzolo

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The church of Carmine

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A colourful floor

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Norman apses

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

A triumph of colour

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

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

One city, three sites

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

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

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A long reconstruction

A city in colour

A half-Baroque church

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The Staircase of Angels

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

A new site for a new church

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

From International Gothic to present day

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

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

The internal colours

Some masterpieces

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

The two churches

A prominent church

The colours of the cathedral

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Two illustrious patron saints

Searching for colour

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

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

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

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

A feast only for Scicli

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Many owners, one palace

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The interior and its masterpieces

A small room with a golden entrance

A hall for the feasts

An eagle-shaped city

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The city of museums

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

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

New roads for Catania

A majestic and luminous church

The chocolate of Modica

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A square as the heart of the city

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

A museum to save a tradition

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

Wonderful quick decorations

Discovering the mother church

Prominent façade

One city, two sites

The disastrous earthquake

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century