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 chocolate of Modica

A museum to save a tradition

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The colours of the cathedral

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A talking palace

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

Wonderful quick decorations

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

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A new site for a new church

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Some masterpieces

St. Sebastian, so much work!

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

A feast only for Scicli

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Many owners, one palace

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

A city in colour

The two churches

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

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

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

From International Gothic to present day

Between white and black

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Two illustrious patron saints

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

A miniature city

The internal colours

The city of museums

A symbol for the town

The theatre of taste

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Discovering the mother church

A prominent church

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

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

One city, two sites

A square as the heart of the city

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

New roads for Catania

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

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

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

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

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

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

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Norman apses

A half-Baroque church

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

One city, three sites

The Burgos crucifix

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

A majestic and luminous church

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The Staircase of Angels

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

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The disastrous earthquake

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A new site for a new city

An eagle-shaped city

Some prestigious works

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

A small room with a golden entrance

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The church of Carmine

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Feast days

Prominent façade

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A hall for the feasts

The Baroque town by the sea

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A colourful floor

A triumph of colour

The wall comes to life

Feasting in Palazzolo

A long reconstruction

Searching for colour

The Maiolica of the staircase

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The interior and its masterpieces