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.

Some masterpieces

A colourful floor

The colours of the cathedral

The internal colours

The church of Carmine

A hall for the feasts

The disastrous earthquake

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

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

A new site for a new church

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

Connections with other UNESCO sites

From International Gothic to present day

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

A majestic and luminous church

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

Feasting in Palazzolo

A new site for a new city

Discovering the mother church

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

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

One city, two sites

A long reconstruction

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

Two illustrious patron saints

The Burgos crucifix

A half-Baroque church

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A triumph of colour

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

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

The interior and its masterpieces

The Maiolica of the staircase

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

Prominent façade

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

Feast days

A city in colour

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The Staircase of Angels

A museum to save a tradition

The theatre of taste

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

A square as the heart of the city

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

One city, three sites

The two churches

Many owners, one palace

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

New roads for Catania

An eagle-shaped city

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

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

Norman apses

A feast only for Scicli

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

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

The wall comes to life

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Wonderful quick decorations

Between white and black

A small room with a golden entrance

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

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

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

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

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The Baroque town by the sea

A talking palace

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Some prestigious works

A prominent church

The city of museums

A symbol for the town

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

Searching for colour

The chocolate of Modica

A miniature city

Limestone, the colour of harmony