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 the Benedictine Monastery and San NicoIò l’Arena

The city of museums

A half-Baroque church

A feast only for Scicli

Some prestigious works

New roads for Catania

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

A talking palace

A majestic and luminous church

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

A new site for a new city

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The two churches

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

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The Staircase of Angels

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

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Two illustrious patron saints

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

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

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

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

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The colours of the cathedral

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

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A symbol for the town

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Prominent façade

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Feasting in Palazzolo

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

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

The Burgos crucifix

The disastrous earthquake

The church of Carmine

The Maiolica of the staircase

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A museum to save a tradition

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A hall for the feasts

Between white and black

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

A small room with a golden entrance

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The façade used as a puppet theatre

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Searching for colour

Many owners, one palace

A miniature city

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The wall comes to life

St. Sebastian, so much work!

One city, two sites

The Baroque town by the sea

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

A long reconstruction

A square as the heart of the city

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

An eagle-shaped city

A city in colour

A colourful floor

Norman apses

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The interior and its masterpieces

Some masterpieces

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

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

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A triumph of colour

From International Gothic to present day

A prominent church

The theatre of taste

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

One city, three sites

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Feast days

The chocolate of Modica

Wonderful quick decorations

Discovering the mother church

A new site for a new church

The internal colours