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.

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

A city in colour

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The disastrous earthquake

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

A new site for a new church

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Searching for colour

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

A colourful floor

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

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

Prominent façade

Wonderful quick decorations

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

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

A half-Baroque church

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

A prominent church

A triumph of colour

Feasting in Palazzolo

A miniature city

Between white and black

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Some masterpieces

The Burgos crucifix

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A long reconstruction

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The wall comes to life

A new site for a new city

Feast days

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

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

Modica, a city with ancient origins

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

A hall for the feasts

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

An eagle-shaped city

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

The two churches

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The internal colours

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The colours of the cathedral

Discovering the mother church

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A feast only for Scicli

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The city of museums

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Some prestigious works

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The interior and its masterpieces

The church of Carmine

The theatre of taste

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

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

Two illustrious patron saints

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A talking palace

The Maiolica of the staircase

A majestic and luminous church

The Baroque town by the sea

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A museum to save a tradition

One city, two sites

The Staircase of Angels

A small room with a golden entrance

New roads for Catania

A symbol for the town

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Many owners, one palace

A square as the heart of the city

Norman apses

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Limestone, the colour of harmony

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

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

One city, three sites

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

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

From International Gothic to present day

The chocolate of Modica

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

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century