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 senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Between white and black

The two churches

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The interior and its masterpieces

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A symbol for the town

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

The Staircase of Angels

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

A majestic and luminous church

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

A new site for a new church

A colourful floor

A square as the heart of the city

An eagle-shaped city

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A miniature city

Two illustrious patron saints

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The Burgos crucifix

Norman apses

A talking palace

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Some masterpieces

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

The Baroque town by the sea

The wall comes to life

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

A prominent church

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A small room with a golden entrance

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Limestone, the colour of harmony

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

Many owners, one palace

A long reconstruction

One city, two sites

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

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Prominent façade

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Some prestigious works

The theatre of taste

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

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

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

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Wonderful quick decorations

New roads for Catania

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

A hall for the feasts

A city in colour

A feast only for Scicli

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

From International Gothic to present day

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The church of Carmine

Feast days

One city, three sites

The internal colours

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

The chocolate of Modica

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

A triumph of colour

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

A museum to save a tradition

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

Discovering the mother church

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

A new site for a new city

Searching for colour

Connections with other UNESCO sites

Feasting in Palazzolo

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The disastrous earthquake

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

The city of museums

The colours of the cathedral

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

A half-Baroque church

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The Maiolica of the staircase

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