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 Nobel Prize in Modica

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

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

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Many owners, one palace

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The Staircase of Angels

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A feast only for Scicli

A new site for a new church

The chocolate of Modica

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A long reconstruction

The Burgos crucifix

One city, three sites

A hall for the feasts

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A city in colour

A triumph of colour

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

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

Between white and black

From International Gothic to present day

A new site for a new city

The city of museums

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

A talking palace

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

St. Sebastian, so much work!

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The two churches

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The colours of the cathedral

The Baroque town by the sea

The theatre of taste

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

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

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

Wonderful quick decorations

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

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Discovering the mother church

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The Maiolica of the staircase

A small room with a golden entrance

The church of Carmine

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

New roads for Catania

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The disastrous earthquake

Prominent façade

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A square as the heart of the city

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Searching for colour

Norman apses

An eagle-shaped city

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A prominent church

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

A majestic and luminous church

The wall comes to life

A colourful floor

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

Some masterpieces

Feast days

Two illustrious patron saints

A symbol for the town

Feasting in Palazzolo

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

A half-Baroque church

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

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

A museum to save a tradition

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

A miniature city

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The interior and its masterpieces

Some prestigious works

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

Limestone, the colour of harmony

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

The internal colours

One city, two sites

Modica, a city with ancient origins