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.

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The disastrous earthquake

The Burgos crucifix

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Searching for colour

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

A museum to save a tradition

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A colourful floor

The internal colours

An eagle-shaped city

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

A new site for a new city

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The interior and its masterpieces

The colours of the cathedral

A talking palace

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

A new site for a new church

Feast days

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

A square as the heart of the city

Prominent façade

A half-Baroque church

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

A small room with a golden entrance

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A majestic and luminous church

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

St. Sebastian, so much work!

One city, three sites

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

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

Many owners, one palace

Discovering the mother church

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

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The wall comes to life

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The city of museums

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A feast only for Scicli

Some masterpieces

One city, two sites

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A long reconstruction

A triumph of colour

The Staircase of Angels

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

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Feasting in Palazzolo

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

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

The church of Carmine

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

New roads for Catania

The two churches

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

A miniature city

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

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

The theatre of taste

Some prestigious works

Two illustrious patron saints

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

Between white and black

Norman apses

A prominent church

The façade used as a puppet theatre

A symbol for the town

The Baroque town by the sea

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

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

From International Gothic to present day

A city in colour

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

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

The Maiolica of the staircase

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The chocolate of Modica

Wonderful quick decorations

A hall for the feasts

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto