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.

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

An eagle-shaped city

A miniature city

Many owners, one palace

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The disastrous earthquake

The church of Carmine

Feasting in Palazzolo

A majestic and luminous church

The theatre of taste

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

The Maiolica of the staircase

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A triumph of colour

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

A hall for the feasts

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The Baroque town by the sea

New roads for Catania

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

A museum to save a tradition

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

A colourful floor

Searching for colour

Between white and black

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A square as the heart of the city

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

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

Connections with other UNESCO sites

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

The interior and its masterpieces

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

A new site for a new church

One city, two sites

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The Burgos crucifix

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The colours of the cathedral

Some prestigious works

One city, three sites

A prominent church

The internal colours

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A city in colour

The city of museums

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

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A long reconstruction

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A feast only for Scicli

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The chocolate of Modica

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

From International Gothic to present day

Prominent façade

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The wall comes to life

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

A small room with a golden entrance

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

Some masterpieces

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

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

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

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A symbol for the town

Discovering the mother church

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

A talking palace

The façade used as a puppet theatre

A new site for a new city

Feast days

The Staircase of Angels

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Wonderful quick decorations

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The two churches

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

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

A half-Baroque church

Two illustrious patron saints

Norman apses