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.

One city, two sites

Norman apses

The two churches

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Two illustrious patron saints

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The theatre of taste

Feasting in Palazzolo

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

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

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

Discovering the mother church

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

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The Maiolica of the staircase

Feast days

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Wonderful quick decorations

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

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

One city, three sites

A colourful floor

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

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

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

The chocolate of Modica

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A symbol for the town

A talking palace

Searching for colour

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A new site for a new city

An eagle-shaped city

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The city of museums

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The church of Carmine

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

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

From International Gothic to present day

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A small room with a golden entrance

A majestic and luminous church

The disastrous earthquake

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

New roads for Catania

A new site for a new church

A prominent church

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The wall comes to life

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A long reconstruction

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The interior and its masterpieces

A city in colour

Between white and black

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Some masterpieces

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The Burgos crucifix

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

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

A feast only for Scicli

Prominent façade

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Some prestigious works

A miniature city

A half-Baroque church

The Baroque town by the sea

Modica, a city with ancient origins

A triumph of colour

A hall for the feasts

A museum to save a tradition

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The colours of the cathedral

The internal colours

A square as the heart of the city

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

Many owners, one palace

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The Staircase of Angels

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

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras