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.

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

One city, three sites

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

Modica, a city with ancient origins

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

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

A hall for the feasts

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

An eagle-shaped city

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A long reconstruction

A symbol for the town

Feasting in Palazzolo

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The Baroque town by the sea

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The Burgos crucifix

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Many owners, one palace

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A new site for a new church

The colours of the cathedral

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The two churches

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Norman apses

The church of Carmine

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

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

The disastrous earthquake

Between white and black

A city in colour

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A triumph of colour

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

A half-Baroque church

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

A museum to save a tradition

Some prestigious works

Some masterpieces

The Maiolica of the staircase

New roads for Catania

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

The chocolate of Modica

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A majestic and luminous church

The city of museums

One city, two sites

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

The interior and its masterpieces

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The theatre of taste

Two illustrious patron saints

The Staircase of Angels

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

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

A new site for a new city

A talking palace

Prominent façade

The wall comes to life

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A square as the heart of the city

Feast days

From International Gothic to present day

A small room with a golden entrance

Searching for colour

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

A prominent church

The internal colours

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

St. Sebastian, so much work!

A feast only for Scicli

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

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

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Discovering the mother church

A colourful floor

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

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Wonderful quick decorations

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

A miniature city