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.

Some prestigious works

The disastrous earthquake

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

A long reconstruction

Two illustrious patron saints

Many owners, one palace

A new site for a new church

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Connections with other UNESCO sites

Feasting in Palazzolo

A miniature city

Norman apses

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A symbol for the town

A museum to save a tradition

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

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

A half-Baroque church

The chocolate of Modica

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

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

Limestone, the colour of harmony

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

The Maiolica of the staircase

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The theatre of taste

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

A square as the heart of the city

The Baroque town by the sea

A new site for a new city

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A triumph of colour

Between white and black

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

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

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

The interior and its masterpieces

A talking palace

From International Gothic to present day

The two churches

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A feast only for Scicli

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Prominent façade

One city, three sites

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

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The internal colours

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

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

Discovering the mother church

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Some masterpieces

The colours of the cathedral

A small room with a golden entrance

The city of museums

New roads for Catania

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

The Staircase of Angels

Wonderful quick decorations

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The Burgos crucifix

An eagle-shaped city

A hall for the feasts

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

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

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A majestic and luminous church

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Searching for colour

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A colourful floor

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A city in colour

One city, two sites

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

A prominent church

Feast days

The wall comes to life

The church of Carmine

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

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 Giuseppe

Modica, a city with ancient origins