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 square as the heart of the city

The colours of the cathedral

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Wonderful quick decorations

The interior and its masterpieces

The internal colours

The Baroque town by the sea

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Modica, a city with ancient origins

From International Gothic to present day

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Some masterpieces

A city in colour

An eagle-shaped city

A new site for a new city

The Burgos crucifix

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

A triumph of colour

Feasting in Palazzolo

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

Feast days

The disastrous earthquake

St. Sebastian, so much work!

New roads for Catania

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

One city, two sites

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

Two illustrious patron saints

A feast only for Scicli

Searching for colour

The two churches

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

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

A museum to save a tradition

A symbol for the town

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

A prominent church

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

A miniature city

One city, three sites

A majestic and luminous church

A hall for the feasts

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Some prestigious works

A new site for a new church

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

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The Staircase of Angels

The theatre of taste

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Norman apses

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A talking palace

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

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

The city of museums

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Prominent façade

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

Discovering the mother church

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

A long reconstruction

Many owners, one palace

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

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

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The wall comes to life

A colourful floor

The Maiolica of the staircase

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

A small room with a golden entrance

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The church of Carmine

The chocolate of Modica

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Between white and black

A half-Baroque church