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 about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A long reconstruction

The theatre of taste

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The Burgos crucifix

A talking palace

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A half-Baroque church

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A triumph of colour

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

St. Sebastian, so much work!

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Feast days

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A museum to save a tradition

A Nobel Prize in Modica

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

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

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The interior and its masterpieces

Wonderful quick decorations

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

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Discovering the mother church

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The Staircase of Angels

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

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

The internal colours

A prominent church

Two illustrious patron saints

From International Gothic to present day

A miniature city

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The city of museums

A square as the heart of the city

A majestic and luminous church

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The colours of the cathedral

A small room with a golden entrance

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

Some masterpieces

A hall for the feasts

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The chocolate of Modica

New roads for Catania

Prominent façade

Searching for colour

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

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

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

A colourful floor

One city, two sites

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

Between white and black

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

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

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

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Feasting in Palazzolo

The wall comes to life

A symbol for the town

The disastrous earthquake

A city in colour

Some prestigious works

Limestone, the colour of harmony

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

A new site for a new church

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The Baroque town by the sea

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

One city, three sites

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

An eagle-shaped city

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

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

The Maiolica of the staircase

The church of Carmine

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Many owners, one palace

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A feast only for Scicli

A new site for a new city

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Norman apses

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The two churches

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library