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 the story of the church of Santa Maria del Carmelo

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The Staircase of Angels

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

One city, two sites

A small room with a golden entrance

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The chocolate of Modica

A majestic and luminous church

St. Sebastian, so much work!

One city, three sites

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

An eagle-shaped city

The church of Carmine

The theatre of taste

The city of museums

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

A hall for the feasts

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

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Feasting in Palazzolo

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A prominent church

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

A miniature city

Norman apses

A new site for a new church

The wall comes to life

The internal colours

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The Baroque town by the sea

The interior and its masterpieces

The colours of the cathedral

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Modica, a city with ancient origins

A colourful floor

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

A long reconstruction

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Prominent façade

Many owners, one palace

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The disastrous earthquake

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

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

Between white and black

Wonderful quick decorations

The Maiolica of the staircase

Discovering the mother church

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

Some prestigious works

The Burgos crucifix

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A triumph of colour

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

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A half-Baroque church

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Searching for colour

From International Gothic to present day

A square as the heart of the city

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

A symbol for the town

Two illustrious patron saints

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

A city in colour

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A museum to save a tradition

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

A new site for a new city

A feast only for Scicli

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The two churches

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

A talking palace

Some masterpieces

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Feast days

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

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