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 about Palazzo Nicolaci

A hall for the feasts

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The wall comes to life

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

A museum to save a tradition

One city, three sites

A colourful floor

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

A half-Baroque church

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

A feast only for Scicli

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

Many owners, one palace

Wonderful quick decorations

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

A small room with a golden entrance

The colours of the cathedral

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Some masterpieces

A talking palace

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The Burgos crucifix

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The internal colours

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

From International Gothic to present day

Feast days

One city, two sites

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The Staircase of Angels

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The Baroque town by the sea

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

The city of museums

A triumph of colour

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The chocolate of Modica

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

A miniature city

The disastrous earthquake

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

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

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

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

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Discovering the mother church

The interior and its masterpieces

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Two illustrious patron saints

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A new site for a new city

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Norman apses

A square as the heart of the city

The theatre of taste

The two churches

An eagle-shaped city

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

A prominent church

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Feasting in Palazzolo

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

Prominent façade

Some prestigious works

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A new site for a new church

A symbol for the town

A long reconstruction

A city in colour

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

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Searching for colour

A majestic and luminous church

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The Maiolica of the staircase

Between white and black

Limestone, the colour of harmony

New roads for Catania

The church of Carmine