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

The Staircase of Angels

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

From International Gothic to present day

Many owners, one palace

Feast days

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Connections with other UNESCO sites

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

A long reconstruction

The internal colours

A colourful floor

Feasting in Palazzolo

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The church of Carmine

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

A feast only for Scicli

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Discovering the mother church

The chocolate of Modica

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A new site for a new city

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

Searching for colour

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

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The wall comes to life

A museum to save a tradition

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The Burgos crucifix

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

A new site for a new church

A small room with a golden entrance

A prominent church

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

One city, three sites

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

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

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A talking palace

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

A hall for the feasts

The city of museums

An eagle-shaped city

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A half-Baroque church

A triumph of colour

New roads for Catania

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

Between white and black

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

Norman apses

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

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

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The colours of the cathedral

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

One city, two sites

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Prominent façade

A city in colour

The disastrous earthquake

Some masterpieces

Some prestigious works

A miniature city

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The theatre of taste

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The interior and its masterpieces

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

Wonderful quick decorations

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The Maiolica of the staircase

The two churches

The Baroque town by the sea

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A square as the heart of the city

A symbol for the town

A majestic and luminous church

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Two illustrious patron saints

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library