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 Maiolica of the staircase

The Burgos crucifix

A square as the heart of the city

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Some prestigious works

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Between white and black

The two churches

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The Staircase of Angels

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

A small room with a golden entrance

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

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A talking palace

A museum to save a tradition

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Wonderful quick decorations

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The chocolate of Modica

The disastrous earthquake

A feast only for Scicli

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

One city, three sites

The interior and its masterpieces

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

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

The façade used as a puppet theatre

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

The church of Carmine

Some masterpieces

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

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

From International Gothic to present day

Prominent façade

The Baroque town by the sea

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The internal colours

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A colourful floor

A prominent church

The theatre of taste

A city in colour

A new site for a new city

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

A symbol for the town

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

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

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

A hall for the feasts

A Nobel Prize in Modica

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

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

A new site for a new church

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

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

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

A triumph of colour

Two illustrious patron saints

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

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

The colours of the cathedral

New roads for Catania

Feasting in Palazzolo

The city of museums

Discovering the mother church

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The wall comes to life

Many owners, one palace

One city, two sites

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Norman apses

A long reconstruction

Feast days

A majestic and luminous church

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

Modica, a city with ancient origins

A half-Baroque church

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A miniature city

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

Searching for colour

An eagle-shaped city

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Limestone, the colour of harmony