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

Some masterpieces

Feast days

Some prestigious works

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Searching for colour

Prominent façade

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

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

From International Gothic to present day

The internal colours

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

Discovering the mother church

New roads for Catania

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The façade used as a puppet theatre

A hall for the feasts

A long reconstruction

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The disastrous earthquake

A museum to save a tradition

The wall comes to life

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

A new site for a new church

A prominent church

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The colours of the cathedral

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

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The city of museums

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

A talking palace

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Between white and black

The Burgos crucifix

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The Maiolica of the staircase

The chocolate of Modica

A half-Baroque church

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The interior and its masterpieces

Feasting in Palazzolo

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

A Nobel Prize in Modica

An eagle-shaped city

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Norman apses

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

Many owners, one palace

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

The theatre of taste

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

One city, three sites

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

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

Two illustrious patron saints

A feast only for Scicli

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

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

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

A small room with a golden entrance

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

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

A colourful floor

A majestic and luminous church

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A city in colour

The Baroque town by the sea

A square as the heart of the city

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

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

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

A symbol for the town

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The two churches

A triumph of colour

A miniature city

One city, two sites

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Wonderful quick decorations

The church of Carmine

The Staircase of Angels

A new site for a new city

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

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