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 square as the heart of the city

The Burgos crucifix

Discovering the mother church

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The Staircase of Angels

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

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

A hall for the feasts

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

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

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The Baroque town by the sea

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

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

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

Between white and black

A long reconstruction

Wonderful quick decorations

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The city of museums

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A small room with a golden entrance

A talking palace

The disastrous earthquake

Feast days

The interior and its masterpieces

One city, three sites

Limestone, the colour of harmony

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

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Some masterpieces

New roads for Catania

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

A colourful floor

Some prestigious works

A museum to save a tradition

The colours of the cathedral

The church of Carmine

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Feasting in Palazzolo

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Norman apses

An eagle-shaped city

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A majestic and luminous church

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

One city, two sites

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

From International Gothic to present day

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

A prominent church

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A new site for a new church

The two churches

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The chocolate of Modica

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The theatre of taste

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Many owners, one palace

A half-Baroque church

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

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The Maiolica of the staircase

The wall comes to life

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

A city in colour

A symbol for the town

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

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

A new site for a new city

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

A feast only for Scicli

The internal colours

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

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

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

Searching for colour

A triumph of colour

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Prominent façade

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Two illustrious patron saints

A miniature city