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 interior and its masterpieces

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A new site for a new city

A miniature city

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The wall comes to life

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

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

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

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

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

Prominent façade

Between white and black

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A triumph of colour

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

An eagle-shaped city

Searching for colour

A feast only for Scicli

Many owners, one palace

A city in colour

The Staircase of Angels

The Burgos crucifix

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

Feast days

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A symbol for the town

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The internal colours

Some prestigious works

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

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

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

Connections with other UNESCO sites

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

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

A new site for a new church

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

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

Some masterpieces

The theatre of taste

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

A long reconstruction

The church of Carmine

A talking palace

A square as the heart of the city

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The Baroque town by the sea

Norman apses

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

Wonderful quick decorations

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Feasting in Palazzolo

A hall for the feasts

A small room with a golden entrance

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A Nobel Prize in Modica

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A museum to save a tradition

A prominent church

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Two illustrious patron saints

The city of museums

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

One city, two sites

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

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

The chocolate of Modica

A majestic and luminous church

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

One city, three sites

Discovering the mother church

The Maiolica of the staircase

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The colours of the cathedral

New roads for Catania

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The two churches

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A half-Baroque church

A colourful floor

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

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

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The disastrous earthquake

From International Gothic to present day

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe