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.

Norman apses

The city of museums

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Prominent façade

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A talking palace

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

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

A square as the heart of the city

A museum to save a tradition

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

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

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

From International Gothic to present day

Between white and black

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A symbol for the town

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

Some masterpieces

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

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

A prominent church

The theatre of taste

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

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

A half-Baroque church

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Discovering the mother church

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Searching for colour

A small room with a golden entrance

A city in colour

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The church of Carmine

New roads for Catania

Two illustrious patron saints

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Feasting in Palazzolo

The chocolate of Modica

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The interior and its masterpieces

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The colours of the cathedral

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The two churches

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

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

Some prestigious works

The wall comes to life

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

Modica, a city with ancient origins

An eagle-shaped city

A feast only for Scicli

The disastrous earthquake

A new site for a new city

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A long reconstruction

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A majestic and luminous church

A colourful floor

One city, two sites

The Maiolica of the staircase

The Burgos crucifix

The internal colours

The Baroque town by the sea

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Wonderful quick decorations

Many owners, one palace

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A hall for the feasts

A miniature city

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

A triumph of colour

Feast days

A new site for a new church

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

One city, three sites

The Staircase of Angels

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century