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 about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A talking palace

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The two churches

Two illustrious patron saints

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The chocolate of Modica

An eagle-shaped city

The wall comes to life

A half-Baroque church

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

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

A triumph of colour

The façade used as a puppet theatre

A feast only for Scicli

A small room with a golden entrance

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Searching for colour

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

A symbol for the town

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The Baroque town by the sea

St. Sebastian, so much work!

A colourful floor

A museum to save a tradition

A miniature city

The city of museums

The Maiolica of the staircase

From International Gothic to present day

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

One city, two sites

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

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Between white and black

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

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The internal colours

The Burgos crucifix

The theatre of taste

A new site for a new church

The church of Carmine

Some masterpieces

A square as the heart of the city

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

A hall for the feasts

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The colours of the cathedral

A majestic and luminous church

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

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

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The interior and its masterpieces

Prominent façade

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The disastrous earthquake

Feast days

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

One city, three sites

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

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

A prominent church

A city in colour

Feasting in Palazzolo

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

New roads for Catania

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

Connections with other UNESCO sites

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

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Wonderful quick decorations

Many owners, one palace

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

Some prestigious works

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The Staircase of Angels

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A new site for a new city

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

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

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

Norman apses

A long reconstruction

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Discovering the mother church