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 disastrous earthquake

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

A city in colour

Some masterpieces

Feasting in Palazzolo

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

A triumph of colour

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The two churches

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

A new site for a new city

Prominent façade

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

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

One city, three sites

A talking palace

Wonderful quick decorations

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A majestic and luminous church

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The Burgos crucifix

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

The internal colours

From International Gothic to present day

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A square as the heart of the city

The colours of the cathedral

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

A miniature city

The wall comes to life

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Feast days

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

St. Sebastian, so much work!

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

A half-Baroque church

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

An eagle-shaped city

The Staircase of Angels

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

One city, two sites

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

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The Maiolica of the staircase

A prominent church

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

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

New roads for Catania

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

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

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The chocolate of Modica

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

The Baroque town by the sea

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Limestone, the colour of harmony

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

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Some prestigious works

The interior and its masterpieces

Many owners, one palace

The church of Carmine

A colourful floor

A small room with a golden entrance

A museum to save a tradition

Between white and black

Discovering the mother church

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

A feast only for Scicli

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A hall for the feasts

A long reconstruction

The city of museums

A new site for a new church

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The theatre of taste

Two illustrious patron saints

Searching for colour

Norman apses

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A symbol for the town