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 character of Badia Sant’Agata

Between white and black

One city, two sites

The interior and its masterpieces

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

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

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

A hall for the feasts

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The city of museums

The internal colours

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

New roads for Catania

Prominent façade

From International Gothic to present day

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A prominent church

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

A new site for a new church

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

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

An eagle-shaped city

Many owners, one palace

A small room with a golden entrance

A triumph of colour

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

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A half-Baroque church

Feasting in Palazzolo

One city, three sites

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

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

Some prestigious works

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The theatre of taste

The two churches

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

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

The Burgos crucifix

The church of Carmine

A square as the heart of the city

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

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

A colourful floor

The disastrous earthquake

A long reconstruction

Norman apses

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

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

A city in colour

Discovering the mother church

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The wall comes to life

The Maiolica of the staircase

Wonderful quick decorations

Limestone, the colour of harmony

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

A feast only for Scicli

A symbol for the town

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

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

Some masterpieces

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

The Baroque town by the sea

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A new site for a new city

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Two illustrious patron saints

A miniature city

The colours of the cathedral

A majestic and luminous church

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The Staircase of Angels

A museum to save a tradition

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The chocolate of Modica

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

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

A talking palace

Searching for colour

Feast days