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.

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The Maiolica of the staircase

The wall comes to life

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

Connections with other UNESCO sites

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

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

A museum to save a tradition

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The interior and its masterpieces

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

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

An eagle-shaped city

The Staircase of Angels

Wonderful quick decorations

Many owners, one palace

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The city of museums

The church of Carmine

Discovering the mother church

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

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

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A feast only for Scicli

The Baroque town by the sea

Prominent façade

A long reconstruction

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A new site for a new city

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

The disastrous earthquake

A hall for the feasts

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

A majestic and luminous church

Feast days

Modica, a city with ancient origins

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

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Feasting in Palazzolo

The two churches

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

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

Norman apses

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

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

Some prestigious works

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A symbol for the town

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

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A prominent church

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

A miniature city

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A square as the heart of the city

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Two illustrious patron saints

Some masterpieces

New roads for Catania

A triumph of colour

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A colourful floor

A city in colour

The colours of the cathedral

Between white and black

One city, two sites

A talking palace

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The Burgos crucifix

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

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The theatre of taste

A Nobel Prize in Modica

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

From International Gothic to present day

Searching for colour

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

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

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

A new site for a new church

A small room with a golden entrance

The chocolate of Modica

One city, three sites

A half-Baroque church

The internal colours