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 disastrous earthquake

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Prominent façade

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The interior and its masterpieces

A miniature city

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The internal colours

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

From International Gothic to present day

New roads for Catania

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

A long reconstruction

Feast days

The Burgos crucifix

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

A symbol for the town

A square as the heart of the city

The wall comes to life

A talking palace

The two churches

A hall for the feasts

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A new site for a new city

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The church of Carmine

A majestic and luminous church

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

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

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Wonderful quick decorations

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Between white and black

The Maiolica of the staircase

The theatre of taste

The chocolate of Modica

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

An eagle-shaped city

A small room with a golden entrance

A triumph of colour

A city in colour

The Baroque town by the sea

A feast only for Scicli

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A new site for a new church

Discovering the mother church

Searching for colour

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

St. Sebastian, so much work!

A colourful floor

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

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

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

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

A prominent church

Modica, a city with ancient origins

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

Some masterpieces

Feasting in Palazzolo

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

One city, three sites

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A half-Baroque church

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The colours of the cathedral

The city of museums

A Nobel Prize in Modica

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

A museum to save a tradition

One city, two sites

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

The Staircase of Angels

Many owners, one palace

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

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

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

Two illustrious patron saints

Some prestigious works

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Norman apses

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