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 long reconstruction

A talking palace

A small room with a golden entrance

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The Baroque town by the sea

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

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

An eagle-shaped city

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

New roads for Catania

The Maiolica of the staircase

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

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The Staircase of Angels

Some masterpieces

The church of Carmine

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A city in colour

A feast only for Scicli

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A prominent church

Discovering the mother church

Between white and black

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

A new site for a new city

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The two churches

A majestic and luminous church

A hall for the feasts

A symbol for the town

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A miniature city

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The disastrous earthquake

The interior and its masterpieces

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Wonderful quick decorations

The wall comes to life

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

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

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Norman apses

A Nobel Prize in Modica

From International Gothic to present day

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

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

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

One city, two sites

The Burgos crucifix

Many owners, one palace

Some prestigious works

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

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The city of museums

Feast days

Feasting in Palazzolo

A square as the heart of the city

Prominent façade

A new site for a new church

A museum to save a tradition

The internal colours

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

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

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

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

The theatre of taste

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

The colours of the cathedral

One city, three sites

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A triumph of colour

A half-Baroque church

Limestone, the colour of harmony

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

St. Sebastian, so much work!

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

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

Searching for colour

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

Two illustrious patron saints

The chocolate of Modica

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

A colourful floor

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara