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 majestic and luminous church

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The theatre of taste

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

One city, two sites

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

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

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A new site for a new city

A city in colour

The city of museums

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A museum to save a tradition

Discovering the mother church

Many owners, one palace

Feast days

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The church of Carmine

One city, three sites

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

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

A colourful floor

The interior and its masterpieces

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

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

From International Gothic to present day

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Norman apses

Some masterpieces

A half-Baroque church

A triumph of colour

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The two churches

A long reconstruction

A symbol for the town

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Modica, a city with ancient origins

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

Some prestigious works

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

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

A talking palace

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

An eagle-shaped city

A small room with a golden entrance

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

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

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Two illustrious patron saints

Between white and black

The chocolate of Modica

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

The Maiolica of the staircase

The Burgos crucifix

The Staircase of Angels

St. Sebastian, so much work!

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

A feast only for Scicli

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Prominent façade

Searching for colour

A hall for the feasts

New roads for Catania

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

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

The colours of the cathedral

A miniature city

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The Baroque town by the sea

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

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Feasting in Palazzolo

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Connections with other UNESCO sites

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

A prominent church

The internal colours

A new site for a new church

The wall comes to life

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Wonderful quick decorations

A square as the heart of the city

The disastrous earthquake

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers