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 church of Carmine

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The two churches

A new site for a new city

The internal colours

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Feast days

The disastrous earthquake

The Maiolica of the staircase

A majestic and luminous church

St. Sebastian, so much work!

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

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

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

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A city in colour

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

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Feasting in Palazzolo

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

The wall comes to life

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

A museum to save a tradition

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

From International Gothic to present day

Wonderful quick decorations

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The Burgos crucifix

A talking palace

The chocolate of Modica

Prominent façade

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

One city, three sites

A miniature city

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

A triumph of colour

The theatre of taste

Discovering the mother church

The interior and its masterpieces

Between white and black

A prominent church

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Some masterpieces

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

Many owners, one palace

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A square as the heart of the city

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

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The Baroque town by the sea

A half-Baroque church

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Connections with other UNESCO sites

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

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

A new site for a new church

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

Some prestigious works

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

A symbol for the town

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

One city, two sites

A hall for the feasts

The city of museums

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

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

A small room with a golden entrance

A long reconstruction

An eagle-shaped city

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A feast only for Scicli

The Staircase of Angels

The colours of the cathedral

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Norman apses

Searching for colour

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

New roads for Catania

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

Modica, a city with ancient origins

A colourful floor

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Two illustrious patron saints