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.

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A hall for the feasts

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

Searching for colour

An eagle-shaped city

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The chocolate of Modica

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

Discovering the mother church

A talking palace

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The city of museums

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The Maiolica of the staircase

Some prestigious works

The theatre of taste

A long reconstruction

The Burgos crucifix

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

A square as the heart of the city

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Feast days

St. Sebastian, so much work!

One city, two sites

Between white and black

Modica, a city with ancient origins

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

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

New roads for Catania

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A city in colour

The Staircase of Angels

The disastrous earthquake

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

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The colours of the cathedral

Two illustrious patron saints

A symbol for the town

A colourful floor

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Prominent façade

A prominent church

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The two churches

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Norman apses

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

From International Gothic to present day

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A small room with a golden entrance

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Wonderful quick decorations

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

A feast only for Scicli

A new site for a new city

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A museum to save a tradition

A half-Baroque church

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Many owners, one palace

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

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The wall comes to life

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A new site for a new church

The Baroque town by the sea

A triumph of colour

Some masterpieces

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

The façade used as a puppet theatre

One city, three sites

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

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

The internal colours

The church of Carmine

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Feasting in Palazzolo

A miniature city

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

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

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

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

The interior and its masterpieces

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A majestic and luminous church

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

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra