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 Benedictine Monastery and San NicoIò l’Arena

The Maiolica of the staircase

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

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Wonderful quick decorations

Between white and black

Norman apses

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The wall comes to life

A new site for a new city

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

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

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

A colourful floor

The disastrous earthquake

New roads for Catania

A triumph of colour

The colours of the cathedral

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

One city, two sites

A prominent church

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

One city, three sites

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A new site for a new church

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

A museum to save a tradition

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

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

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

A long reconstruction

Many owners, one palace

A majestic and luminous church

The chocolate of Modica

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The Baroque town by the sea

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Feast days

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The two churches

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

A talking palace

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

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The internal colours

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Feasting in Palazzolo

The city of museums

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The Burgos crucifix

An eagle-shaped city

A symbol for the town

A city in colour

A small room with a golden entrance

A feast only for Scicli

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Prominent façade

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

A half-Baroque church

Two illustrious patron saints

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The theatre of taste

Some masterpieces

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A square as the heart of the city

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The interior and its masterpieces

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Some prestigious works

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Discovering the mother church

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

A miniature city

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

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

The church of Carmine

The Staircase of Angels

Searching for colour

The façade used as a puppet theatre

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

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A hall for the feasts

From International Gothic to present day

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci