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 Burgos crucifix

A hall for the feasts

A city in colour

A museum to save a tradition

A symbol for the town

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The interior and its masterpieces

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

A half-Baroque church

St. Sebastian, so much work!

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

The city of museums

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The two churches

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

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

A majestic and luminous church

Connections with other UNESCO sites

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

The Maiolica of the staircase

The internal colours

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

A feast only for Scicli

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

An eagle-shaped city

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Some masterpieces

Wonderful quick decorations

The Baroque town by the sea

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

A new site for a new church

One city, two sites

Searching for colour

Discovering the mother church

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The church of Carmine

Many owners, one palace

Between white and black

Prominent façade

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

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

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

New roads for Catania

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The wall comes to life

A talking palace

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

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

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

A square as the heart of the city

Two illustrious patron saints

The colours of the cathedral

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Modica, a city with ancient origins

A prominent church

One city, three sites

A long reconstruction

The disastrous earthquake

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The Staircase of Angels

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

Norman apses

Some prestigious works

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

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

Feasting in Palazzolo

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A triumph of colour

A miniature city

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The chocolate of Modica

The theatre of taste

A new site for a new city

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Feast days

A colourful floor

From International Gothic to present day

A Nobel Prize in Modica

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

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

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

A small room with a golden entrance