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.

A small room with a golden entrance

Many owners, one palace

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Some prestigious works

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Some masterpieces

A square as the heart of the city

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Searching for colour

A feast only for Scicli

A majestic and luminous church

A triumph of colour

The Maiolica of the staircase

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A long reconstruction

Wonderful quick decorations

A colourful floor

A symbol for the town

A half-Baroque church

The church of Carmine

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The two churches

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The internal colours

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

The Baroque town by the sea

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

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

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

One city, two sites

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

From International Gothic to present day

Two illustrious patron saints

The chocolate of Modica

Prominent façade

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The Staircase of Angels

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

A talking palace

An eagle-shaped city

The interior and its masterpieces

One city, three sites

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

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

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

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A hall for the feasts

Feast days

Between white and black

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Norman apses

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

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The city of museums

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

New roads for Catania

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The theatre of taste

A prominent church

Feasting in Palazzolo

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A new site for a new church

Discovering the mother church

The Burgos crucifix

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

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

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

A new site for a new city

The disastrous earthquake

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

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

A miniature city

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

A city in colour

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The colours of the cathedral

The wall comes to life

A museum to save a tradition