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 Staircase of Angels

The Maiolica of the staircase

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The theatre of taste

The Burgos crucifix

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The colours of the cathedral

Many owners, one palace

Searching for colour

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Feast days

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

An eagle-shaped city

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

A half-Baroque church

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

New roads for Catania

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

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A long reconstruction

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

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

A small room with a golden entrance

Norman apses

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

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

A miniature city

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The Baroque town by the sea

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

A prominent church

The city of museums

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The wall comes to life

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

A new site for a new church

A city in colour

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

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

A square as the heart of the city

Connections with other UNESCO sites

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Discovering the mother church

From International Gothic to present day

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

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

A triumph of colour

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The chocolate of Modica

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A majestic and luminous church

A hall for the feasts

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The church of Carmine

One city, three sites

A museum to save a tradition

Two illustrious patron saints

The interior and its masterpieces

Some prestigious works

A talking palace

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Some masterpieces

The internal colours

The disastrous earthquake

A feast only for Scicli

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A symbol for the town

Feasting in Palazzolo

Prominent façade

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A colourful floor

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

The two churches

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

A new site for a new city

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Wonderful quick decorations

Between white and black

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Modica, a city with ancient origins

One city, two sites

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

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

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

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

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