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 two churches

The disastrous earthquake

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The colours of the cathedral

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The Staircase of Angels

A miniature city

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

Connections with other UNESCO sites

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The Burgos crucifix

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

Some prestigious works

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Searching for colour

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The internal colours

The theatre of taste

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A museum to save a tradition

A small room with a golden entrance

A feast only for Scicli

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

A colourful floor

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

The church of Carmine

Norman apses

The Baroque town by the sea

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The chocolate of Modica

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The wall comes to life

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

Feasting in Palazzolo

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

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

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

A triumph of colour

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A square as the heart of the city

A talking palace

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

A long reconstruction

An eagle-shaped city

Wonderful quick decorations

Two illustrious patron saints

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The Maiolica of the staircase

From International Gothic to present day

Some masterpieces

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

A new site for a new city

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

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

A hall for the feasts

A majestic and luminous church

The interior and its masterpieces

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

New roads for Catania

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

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

A new site for a new church

Many owners, one palace

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A half-Baroque church

One city, three sites

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

One city, two sites

A city in colour

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Prominent façade

Modica, a city with ancient origins

A symbol for the town

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

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

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

Feast days

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

A prominent church

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

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

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Discovering the mother church

The city of museums

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Between white and black