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 Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Two illustrious patron saints

A prominent church

Discovering the mother church

Connections with other UNESCO sites

Some prestigious works

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Feasting in Palazzolo

A long reconstruction

A half-Baroque church

A majestic and luminous church

New roads for Catania

A museum to save a tradition

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

Between white and black

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A square as the heart of the city

From International Gothic to present day

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The disastrous earthquake

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

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

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

The chocolate of Modica

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

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

The Staircase of Angels

Some masterpieces

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

The Maiolica of the staircase

The church of Carmine

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A talking palace

A new site for a new church

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Prominent façade

An eagle-shaped city

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

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

The façade used as a puppet theatre

One city, two sites

The Baroque town by the sea

A colourful floor

A new site for a new city

The city of museums

A triumph of colour

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

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The two churches

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Searching for colour

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

The internal colours

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A feast only for Scicli

A city in colour

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The theatre of taste

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A hall for the feasts

A symbol for the town

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

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Wonderful quick decorations

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

A small room with a golden entrance

Many owners, one palace

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The interior and its masterpieces

One city, three sites

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A miniature city

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

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

The wall comes to life

Norman apses

The colours of the cathedral

Feast days

The Burgos crucifix

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

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe