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 role of the religious orders in rebuilding the Val di Noto

The chocolate of Modica

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

A hall for the feasts

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The theatre of taste

A colourful floor

Between white and black

New roads for Catania

The colours of the cathedral

The Maiolica of the staircase

The interior and its masterpieces

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

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

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

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The internal colours

The Baroque town by the sea

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Wonderful quick decorations

From International Gothic to present day

A triumph of colour

One city, three sites

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

A feast only for Scicli

A majestic and luminous church

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The disastrous earthquake

A small room with a golden entrance

Discovering the mother church

St. Sebastian, so much work!

A new site for a new church

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

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A square as the heart of the city

A half-Baroque church

Feasting in Palazzolo

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A miniature city

Searching for colour

Feast days

A museum to save a tradition

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A new site for a new city

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A talking palace

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

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

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Prominent façade

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

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Modica, a city with ancient origins

An eagle-shaped city

Norman apses

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

Some prestigious works

The Staircase of Angels

Two illustrious patron saints

One city, two sites

The Burgos crucifix

The façade used as a puppet theatre

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The city of museums

A long reconstruction

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

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

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Some masterpieces

The wall comes to life

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A prominent church

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The two churches

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A city in colour

A symbol for the town

The church of Carmine

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Many owners, one palace

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso