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.

Many owners, one palace

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

One city, three sites

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The interior and its masterpieces

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Some masterpieces

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

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

A symbol for the town

The colours of the cathedral

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

A majestic and luminous church

Modica, a city with ancient origins

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

An eagle-shaped city

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The Baroque town by the sea

A city in colour

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Some prestigious works

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

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

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The disastrous earthquake

Two illustrious patron saints

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Feasting in Palazzolo

A feast only for Scicli

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The wall comes to life

One city, two sites

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The internal colours

St. Sebastian, so much work!

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

A half-Baroque church

Norman apses

Prominent façade

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A miniature city

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

A hall for the feasts

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The theatre of taste

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

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

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A colourful floor

A museum to save a tradition

From International Gothic to present day

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Wonderful quick decorations

Connections with other UNESCO sites

Searching for colour

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

The city of museums

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

A new site for a new church

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

The Burgos crucifix

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

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

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Discovering the mother church

A new site for a new city

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

A small room with a golden entrance

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Between white and black

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The Maiolica of the staircase

A triumph of colour

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A long reconstruction

A talking palace

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The chocolate of Modica

Feast days

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A square as the heart of the city

New roads for Catania

The church of Carmine

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The Staircase of Angels

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The two churches

A prominent church

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library