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.

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

From International Gothic to present day

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

A half-Baroque church

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The chocolate of Modica

Some masterpieces

The two churches

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The façade used as a puppet theatre

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

A colourful floor

St. Sebastian, so much work!

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A symbol for the town

A small room with a golden entrance

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Many owners, one palace

A miniature city

The Maiolica of the staircase

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The Baroque town by the sea

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A square as the heart of the city

The disastrous earthquake

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The city of museums

A talking palace

The Burgos crucifix

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

A city in colour

The wall comes to life

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A hall for the feasts

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

The internal colours

Limestone, the colour of harmony

One city, three sites

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Between white and black

One city, two sites

The interior and its masterpieces

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

A feast only for Scicli

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

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

New roads for Catania

The Staircase of Angels

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Two illustrious patron saints

A new site for a new church

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The church of Carmine

Norman apses

Connections with other UNESCO sites

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

A new site for a new city

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Discovering the mother church

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Feasting in Palazzolo

A triumph of colour

Wonderful quick decorations

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Prominent façade

A long reconstruction

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

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

Searching for colour

Modica, a city with ancient origins

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

Feast days

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

A majestic and luminous church

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A museum to save a tradition

Some prestigious works

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

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

A Nobel Prize in Modica

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

The theatre of taste

The colours of the cathedral

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

An eagle-shaped city

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

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

A prominent church