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.

A colourful floor

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

From International Gothic to present day

A prominent church

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

A hall for the feasts

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The internal colours

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

A small room with a golden entrance

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Some masterpieces

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The wall comes to life

A long reconstruction

Many owners, one palace

Feast days

The disastrous earthquake

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The Baroque town by the sea

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

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The two churches

A museum to save a tradition

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Between white and black

A half-Baroque church

The church of Carmine

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

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

A symbol for the town

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

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

The interior and its masterpieces

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

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

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Searching for colour

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Connections with other UNESCO sites

Norman apses

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

A new site for a new church

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

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

Modica, a city with ancient origins

A triumph of colour

The Staircase of Angels

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

A square as the heart of the city

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

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

Some prestigious works

Limestone, the colour of harmony

New roads for Catania

A city in colour

An eagle-shaped city

Prominent façade

Wonderful quick decorations

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

A talking palace

The theatre of taste

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

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

The chocolate of Modica

Feasting in Palazzolo

Discovering the mother church

One city, three sites

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

The colours of the cathedral

A majestic and luminous church

The city of museums

A new site for a new city

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A miniature city

The Maiolica of the staircase

The Burgos crucifix

One city, two sites

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Two illustrious patron saints

A feast only for Scicli