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 colourful floor

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

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

Norman apses

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The Baroque town by the sea

One city, two sites

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

Wonderful quick decorations

A square as the heart of the city

A long reconstruction

A new site for a new church

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

The two churches

The Staircase of Angels

A city in colour

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

A half-Baroque church

The disastrous earthquake

Discovering the mother church

The colours of the cathedral

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

A majestic and luminous church

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The theatre of taste

The Burgos crucifix

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

A triumph of colour

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

An eagle-shaped city

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Feasting in Palazzolo

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Many owners, one palace

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Searching for colour

Between white and black

The Maiolica of the staircase

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

New roads for Catania

The interior and its masterpieces

The wall comes to life

A miniature city

Prominent façade

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Some prestigious works

A talking palace

A small room with a golden entrance

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

From International Gothic to present day

Feast days

A feast only for Scicli

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Modica, a city with ancient origins

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

One city, three sites

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

The church of Carmine

A prominent church

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A museum to save a tradition

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Some masterpieces

The chocolate of Modica

The internal colours

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

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

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

A new site for a new city

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

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

A hall for the feasts

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The city of museums

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

A symbol for the town

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

Two illustrious patron saints

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

St. Sebastian, so much work!