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.

Discovering the mother church

One city, three sites

A half-Baroque church

A talking palace

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

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The disastrous earthquake

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

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

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

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A triumph of colour

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Two illustrious patron saints

A miniature city

A long reconstruction

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

A new site for a new church

Searching for colour

The city of museums

A new site for a new city

A museum to save a tradition

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Some prestigious works

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

The church of Carmine

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Wonderful quick decorations

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The interior and its masterpieces

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

A hall for the feasts

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Many owners, one palace

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

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

Prominent façade

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

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The Baroque town by the sea

Feasting in Palazzolo

A prominent church

The chocolate of Modica

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A colourful floor

One city, two sites

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The Burgos crucifix

A symbol for the town

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

Between white and black

Norman apses

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A city in colour

A small room with a golden entrance

Feast days

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A square as the heart of the city

The two churches

The Maiolica of the staircase

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

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

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

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The internal colours

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A feast only for Scicli

The wall comes to life

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The theatre of taste

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The Staircase of Angels

An eagle-shaped city

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

From International Gothic to present day

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A majestic and luminous church

New roads for Catania

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

Some masterpieces

The colours of the cathedral