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 talking palace

The chocolate of Modica

The Maiolica of the staircase

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

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

The two churches

A colourful floor

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

A majestic and luminous church

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A museum to save a tradition

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The Staircase of Angels

A small room with a golden entrance

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

The disastrous earthquake

Feast days

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Some masterpieces

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Between white and black

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The theatre of taste

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

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

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Modica, a city with ancient origins

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

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Two illustrious patron saints

A miniature city

The wall comes to life

Feasting in Palazzolo

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

An eagle-shaped city

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

A new site for a new city

A symbol for the town

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

From International Gothic to present day

The city of museums

Discovering the mother church

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

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

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

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A triumph of colour

Many owners, one palace

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The church of Carmine

Limestone, the colour of harmony

One city, three sites

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The Burgos crucifix

One city, two sites

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A city in colour

Prominent façade

Searching for colour

A square as the heart of the city

A feast only for Scicli

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

The Baroque town by the sea

A new site for a new church

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

New roads for Catania

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The interior and its masterpieces

A long reconstruction

Wonderful quick decorations

The colours of the cathedral

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

A half-Baroque church

Some prestigious works

A prominent church

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The internal colours

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Norman apses

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A hall for the feasts

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

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