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 story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Feast days

Some masterpieces

A new site for a new church

From International Gothic to present day

A city in colour

The theatre of taste

A miniature city

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

One city, two sites

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

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

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

A long reconstruction

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Searching for colour

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The wall comes to life

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

An eagle-shaped city

New roads for Catania

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

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

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

The church of Carmine

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Feasting in Palazzolo

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The interior and its masterpieces

A colourful floor

Prominent façade

The Burgos crucifix

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

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

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A talking palace

A hall for the feasts

A small room with a golden entrance

A square as the heart of the city

Norman apses

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

St. Sebastian, so much work!

A feast only for Scicli

The city of museums

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

A half-Baroque church

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

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

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

Connections with other UNESCO sites

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The façade used as a puppet theatre

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

A triumph of colour

Discovering the mother church

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A new site for a new city

The disastrous earthquake

Wonderful quick decorations

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A prominent church

The internal colours

The chocolate of Modica

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

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

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The Maiolica of the staircase

One city, three sites

Many owners, one palace

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

A museum to save a tradition

Between white and black

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

A symbol for the town

The colours of the cathedral

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

Two illustrious patron saints

The Staircase of Angels

Some prestigious works

The Baroque town by the sea

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

A majestic and luminous church

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

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The two churches

A new palace for the La Rocca lords