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.

Searching for colour

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The two churches

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

A feast only for Scicli

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The interior and its masterpieces

Norman apses

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The colours of the cathedral

A small room with a golden entrance

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The Burgos crucifix

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A new site for a new city

Some masterpieces

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

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

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A colourful floor

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

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

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

New roads for Catania

Two illustrious patron saints

A majestic and luminous church

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Feasting in Palazzolo

Between white and black

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

A symbol for the town

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

A talking palace

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

St. Sebastian, so much work!

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

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

An eagle-shaped city

Modica, a city with ancient origins

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

One city, two sites

The wall comes to life

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The city of museums

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A square as the heart of the city

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A hall for the feasts

From International Gothic to present day

A miniature city

Wonderful quick decorations

The church of Carmine

Discovering the mother church

A half-Baroque church

Feast days

A museum to save a tradition

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

A long reconstruction

The theatre of taste

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The Maiolica of the staircase

Limestone, the colour of harmony

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

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The chocolate of Modica

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

A new site for a new church

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

Some prestigious works

The Baroque town by the sea

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A prominent church

Many owners, one palace

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

One city, three sites

The disastrous earthquake

A triumph of colour

Prominent façade

The Staircase of Angels

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The internal colours

A city in colour

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

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