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.

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Some prestigious works

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Feast days

A miniature city

The colours of the cathedral

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

Searching for colour

An eagle-shaped city

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

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The internal colours

The church of Carmine

One city, two sites

The façade used as a puppet theatre

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

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

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

Limestone, the colour of harmony

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

A colourful floor

A hall for the feasts

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The Baroque town by the sea

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The wall comes to life

A city in colour

Two illustrious patron saints

A new site for a new church

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The city of museums

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Feasting in Palazzolo

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The disastrous earthquake

A museum to save a tradition

Wonderful quick decorations

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

Many owners, one palace

A new site for a new city

A small room with a golden entrance

A triumph of colour

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Modica, a city with ancient origins

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

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

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

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

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The chocolate of Modica

One city, three sites

Some masterpieces

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The two churches

A majestic and luminous church

The theatre of taste

The Staircase of Angels

A feast only for Scicli

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Norman apses

Between white and black

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

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

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Prominent façade

The Maiolica of the staircase

The Burgos crucifix

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The interior and its masterpieces

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

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

A long reconstruction

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

New roads for Catania

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

From International Gothic to present day

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

A square as the heart of the city

A prominent church

A talking palace

A half-Baroque church

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A symbol for the town

Discovering the mother church