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 story of the Church of San Sebastiano

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

One city, three sites

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The internal colours

A prominent church

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

A city in colour

Some prestigious works

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The Baroque town by the sea

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

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

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

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

A half-Baroque church

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Feast days

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Between white and black

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A talking palace

A majestic and luminous church

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Prominent façade

The church of Carmine

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

One city, two sites

The chocolate of Modica

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

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

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

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A long reconstruction

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

A colourful floor

The city of museums

A triumph of colour

Searching for colour

Two illustrious patron saints

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Some masterpieces

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The Burgos crucifix

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Many owners, one palace

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

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The Staircase of Angels

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

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

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Discovering the mother church

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A new site for a new church

Norman apses

A museum to save a tradition

The façade used as a puppet theatre

New roads for Catania

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

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

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The wall comes to life

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

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A new site for a new city

The colours of the cathedral

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

A hall for the feasts

Feasting in Palazzolo

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The theatre of taste

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The interior and its masterpieces

A small room with a golden entrance

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

A miniature city

The Maiolica of the staircase

A square as the heart of the city

Wonderful quick decorations

The two churches

An eagle-shaped city

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

A feast only for Scicli

A symbol for the town

The disastrous earthquake

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

From International Gothic to present day

Connections with other UNESCO sites