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.

From International Gothic to present day

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

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The Baroque town by the sea

One city, three sites

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Some masterpieces

Limestone, the colour of harmony

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The Burgos crucifix

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

A colourful floor

A talking palace

A half-Baroque church

A new site for a new city

The wall comes to life

The interior and its masterpieces

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Between white and black

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

A symbol for the town

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

Many owners, one palace

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

Searching for colour

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

The church of Carmine

The internal colours

A miniature city

A city in colour

New roads for Catania

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The colours of the cathedral

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Prominent façade

An eagle-shaped city

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A museum to save a tradition

Two illustrious patron saints

Feast days

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

Some prestigious works

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

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

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The city of museums

Norman apses

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The chocolate of Modica

A long reconstruction

The Maiolica of the staircase

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

A square as the heart of the city

Discovering the mother church

One city, two sites

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A small room with a golden entrance

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

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

A prominent church

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

St. Sebastian, so much work!

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

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The disastrous earthquake

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

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

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A triumph of colour

The theatre of taste

A hall for the feasts

Feasting in Palazzolo

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

A new site for a new church

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

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

A feast only for Scicli

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

The two churches

Wonderful quick decorations

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

The Staircase of Angels

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The façade used as a puppet theatre

A majestic and luminous church