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 cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The Burgos crucifix

The wall comes to life

Some prestigious works

Discovering the mother church

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

From International Gothic to present day

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

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

A city in colour

A colourful floor

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

Some masterpieces

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A square as the heart of the city

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The internal colours

The interior and its masterpieces

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The two churches

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Many owners, one palace

One city, two sites

A museum to save a tradition

Prominent façade

Connections with other UNESCO sites

Wonderful quick decorations

A talking palace

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

A prominent church

The theatre of taste

A triumph of colour

A long reconstruction

The Baroque town by the sea

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

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

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Two illustrious patron saints

Between white and black

A symbol for the town

The Maiolica of the staircase

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

New roads for Catania

The chocolate of Modica

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A half-Baroque church

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

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

A majestic and luminous church

Searching for colour

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

St. Sebastian, so much work!

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

An eagle-shaped city

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

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

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

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The Staircase of Angels

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

A miniature city

Feast days

A new site for a new city

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The disastrous earthquake

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

A new site for a new church

Feasting in Palazzolo

One city, three sites

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

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The colours of the cathedral

A small room with a golden entrance

The city of museums

Norman apses

A hall for the feasts

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

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

A feast only for Scicli