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 the Mother Church of San Nicolò and of the Santissimo Salvatore

Some masterpieces

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Many owners, one palace

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Searching for colour

The two churches

A hall for the feasts

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

A new site for a new city

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

Prominent façade

One city, two sites

A prominent church

The theatre of taste

The church of Carmine

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

One city, three sites

A triumph of colour

A feast only for Scicli

Norman apses

A talking palace

Some prestigious works

A symbol for the town

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

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The façade used as a puppet theatre

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

A miniature city

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

A colourful floor

A square as the heart of the city

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

A small room with a golden entrance

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Between white and black

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A half-Baroque church

Discovering the mother church

A new site for a new church

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The chocolate of Modica

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

New roads for Catania

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

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

The Baroque town by the sea

The colours of the cathedral

The interior and its masterpieces

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

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

From International Gothic to present day

A long reconstruction

The wall comes to life

The disastrous earthquake

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

A city in colour

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The Staircase of Angels

Feasting in Palazzolo

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

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

The city of museums

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

The Maiolica of the staircase

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

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

Feast days

An eagle-shaped city

Wonderful quick decorations

The internal colours

Two illustrious patron saints

A museum to save a tradition

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The Burgos crucifix

A majestic and luminous church