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 Badia di Sant’Agata

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

A new site for a new church

The Baroque town by the sea

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

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

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

A prominent church

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The wall comes to life

Many owners, one palace

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The city of museums

Between white and black

The colours of the cathedral

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Feasting in Palazzolo

Searching for colour

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

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

A majestic and luminous church

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The façade used as a puppet theatre

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

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A half-Baroque church

Wonderful quick decorations

The two churches

The internal colours

A symbol for the town

A colourful floor

A feast only for Scicli

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Two illustrious patron saints

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The Burgos crucifix

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The Maiolica of the staircase

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The interior and its masterpieces

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

A small room with a golden entrance

A city in colour

New roads for Catania

One city, three sites

A triumph of colour

Prominent façade

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

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

An eagle-shaped city

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Norman apses

One city, two sites

A talking palace

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A miniature city

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

From International Gothic to present day

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

A new site for a new city

The theatre of taste

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Connections with other UNESCO sites

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

St. Sebastian, so much work!

A museum to save a tradition

The chocolate of Modica

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Discovering the mother church

Feast days

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

A hall for the feasts

The Staircase of Angels

The church of Carmine

A long reconstruction

Some prestigious works

A square as the heart of the city

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Some masterpieces

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

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

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

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

The disastrous earthquake