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.

Norman apses

The city of museums

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

A new site for a new church

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

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

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

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A talking palace

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

A new site for a new city

The façade used as a puppet theatre

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

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The Baroque town by the sea

A small room with a golden entrance

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

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

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Some masterpieces

A city in colour

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Modica, a city with ancient origins

A half-Baroque church

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Many owners, one palace

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Searching for colour

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

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

A hall for the feasts

The two churches

The Staircase of Angels

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Connections with other UNESCO sites

Between white and black

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A majestic and luminous church

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A long reconstruction

The wall comes to life

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

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

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Two illustrious patron saints

The church of Carmine

The internal colours

A museum to save a tradition

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

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

Discovering the mother church

Prominent façade

From International Gothic to present day

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The colours of the cathedral

A feast only for Scicli

A miniature city

The chocolate of Modica

The disastrous earthquake

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

Feasting in Palazzolo

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The Burgos crucifix

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

Feast days

Some prestigious works

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A prominent church

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

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

The Maiolica of the staircase

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

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

Wonderful quick decorations

One city, two sites

A symbol for the town

New roads for Catania

A triumph of colour

A square as the heart of the city

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

An eagle-shaped city

One city, three sites

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

A colourful floor

The theatre of taste

The interior and its masterpieces

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca