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 new site for a new church

Between white and black

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The internal colours

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The theatre of taste

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

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

One city, three sites

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

Wonderful quick decorations

A majestic and luminous church

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

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

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

New roads for Catania

A square as the heart of the city

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Some masterpieces

From International Gothic to present day

The Maiolica of the staircase

Prominent façade

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

A half-Baroque church

A symbol for the town

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Searching for colour

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The church of Carmine

A colourful floor

The city of museums

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Feasting in Palazzolo

The two churches

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

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Discovering the mother church

St. Sebastian, so much work!

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

A long reconstruction

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

An eagle-shaped city

A new site for a new city

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Connections with other UNESCO sites

One city, two sites

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

A feast only for Scicli

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Some prestigious works

The interior and its masterpieces

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

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Two illustrious patron saints

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The chocolate of Modica

Norman apses

A museum to save a tradition

Many owners, one palace

The disastrous earthquake

The Burgos crucifix

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Feast days

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A miniature city

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

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

A prominent church

The colours of the cathedral

A triumph of colour

A small room with a golden entrance

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The Baroque town by the sea

The façade used as a puppet theatre

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The Staircase of Angels

A talking palace

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

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

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

A hall for the feasts

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

A city in colour

The wall comes to life