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 church of Carmine

The interior and its masterpieces

Searching for colour

The façade used as a puppet theatre

A new site for a new church

The Baroque town by the sea

A feast only for Scicli

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

The Burgos crucifix

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

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

Some masterpieces

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Connections with other UNESCO sites

Prominent façade

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

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

The two churches

A symbol for the town

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

From International Gothic to present day

The wall comes to life

Wonderful quick decorations

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

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Discovering the mother church

The colours of the cathedral

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A hall for the feasts

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

New roads for Catania

Feast days

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

A new site for a new city

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A Nobel Prize in Modica

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

A museum to save a tradition

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A long reconstruction

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

The city of museums

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A triumph of colour

The disastrous earthquake

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

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

A half-Baroque church

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

One city, two sites

St. Sebastian, so much work!

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

A city in colour

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A colourful floor

Between white and black

A prominent church

The internal colours

A square as the heart of the city

Many owners, one palace

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

A talking palace

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Norman apses

A majestic and luminous church

A miniature city

The Maiolica of the staircase

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The chocolate of Modica

Some prestigious works

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

One city, three sites

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Two illustrious patron saints

A small room with a golden entrance

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

An eagle-shaped city

The Staircase of Angels

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

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

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

Feasting in Palazzolo

The theatre of taste