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.

Some masterpieces

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

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The wall comes to life

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

A colourful floor

The city of museums

Many owners, one palace

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The chocolate of Modica

A symbol for the town

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

A majestic and luminous church

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

New roads for Catania

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

One city, two sites

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A square as the heart of the city

Searching for colour

The church of Carmine

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

A prominent church

Feasting in Palazzolo

A new site for a new city

The internal colours

Wonderful quick decorations

Prominent façade

A feast only for Scicli

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The Staircase of Angels

The Maiolica of the staircase

A talking palace

A new site for a new church

A hall for the feasts

Modica, a city with ancient origins

A museum to save a tradition

The theatre of taste

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

Feast days

St. Sebastian, so much work!

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Discovering the mother church

From International Gothic to present day

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

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A small room with a golden entrance

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

An eagle-shaped city

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

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

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Norman apses

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

A long reconstruction

A city in colour

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Between white and black

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

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

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

Some prestigious works

A triumph of colour

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The interior and its masterpieces

The disastrous earthquake

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The Burgos crucifix

The colours of the cathedral

Two illustrious patron saints

A miniature city

One city, three sites

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The Baroque town by the sea

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The two churches

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

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

A half-Baroque church

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

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

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The character of Badia Sant’Agata