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.

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A new site for a new city

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The chocolate of Modica

A small room with a golden entrance

Some prestigious works

The two churches

Prominent façade

An eagle-shaped city

The Staircase of Angels

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A talking palace

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Between white and black

The internal colours

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

A miniature city

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

A new site for a new church

A square as the heart of the city

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

New roads for Catania

Feast days

A colourful floor

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

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

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

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

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Many owners, one palace

The city of museums

A triumph of colour

A hall for the feasts

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The Baroque town by the sea

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Feasting in Palazzolo

A majestic and luminous church

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

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

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

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

Searching for colour

The church of Carmine

The Burgos crucifix

The colours of the cathedral

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

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

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A city in colour

The wall comes to life

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

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

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

A symbol for the town

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The interior and its masterpieces

Discovering the mother church

Some masterpieces

A prominent church

A feast only for Scicli

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A half-Baroque church

Wonderful quick decorations

One city, two sites

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

A museum to save a tradition

Two illustrious patron saints

The theatre of taste

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

The disastrous earthquake

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

A long reconstruction

The Maiolica of the staircase

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Norman apses

From International Gothic to present day

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

One city, three sites