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.

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

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The Maiolica of the staircase

A majestic and luminous church

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

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The disastrous earthquake

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Prominent façade

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The façade used as a puppet theatre

A talking palace

A half-Baroque church

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Many owners, one palace

The Burgos crucifix

The wall comes to life

A hall for the feasts

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Wonderful quick decorations

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A prominent church

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

The colours of the cathedral

A long reconstruction

The church of Carmine

The theatre of taste

One city, two sites

A feast only for Scicli

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

A new site for a new city

The chocolate of Modica

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A new site for a new church

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The internal colours

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

From International Gothic to present day

A colourful floor

The Staircase of Angels

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

The Baroque town by the sea

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

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

New roads for Catania

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Feasting in Palazzolo

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Searching for colour

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

Some masterpieces

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

One city, three sites

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A square as the heart of the city

A triumph of colour

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The city of museums

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

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

Discovering the mother church

Two illustrious patron saints

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

Some prestigious works

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

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The interior and its masterpieces

A miniature city

Feast days

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Limestone, the colour of harmony

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

A small room with a golden entrance

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

Between white and black

An eagle-shaped city

A city in colour

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

Norman apses

A museum to save a tradition

The two churches

A symbol for the town

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library