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.

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

St. Sebastian, so much work!

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

Many owners, one palace

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Searching for colour

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The internal colours

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The interior and its masterpieces

A prominent church

An eagle-shaped city

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

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The chocolate of Modica

A new site for a new church

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Feasting in Palazzolo

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Limestone, the colour of harmony

One city, three sites

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Discovering the mother church

Between white and black

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

A talking palace

A feast only for Scicli

A triumph of colour

A small room with a golden entrance

A miniature city

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

The theatre of taste

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The church of Carmine

A city in colour

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A long reconstruction

The Baroque town by the sea

A new site for a new city

A majestic and luminous church

Two illustrious patron saints

Some prestigious works

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

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

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

A colourful floor

Wonderful quick decorations

The city of museums

New roads for Catania

Prominent façade

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

A square as the heart of the city

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The disastrous earthquake

A museum to save a tradition

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The Maiolica of the staircase

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

One city, two sites

The Staircase of Angels

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

A symbol for the town

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

A hall for the feasts

Some masterpieces

Norman apses

Feast days

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The colours of the cathedral

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The Burgos crucifix

The wall comes to life

The two churches

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A half-Baroque church

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

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

From International Gothic to present day