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 character of Badia Sant’Agata

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

A new site for a new church

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

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

The two churches

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The colours of the cathedral

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

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

An eagle-shaped city

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A long reconstruction

Discovering the mother church

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

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A miniature city

The internal colours

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Norman apses

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

The chocolate of Modica

The wall comes to life

Connections with other UNESCO sites

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

Prominent façade

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

A colourful floor

A triumph of colour

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

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The Burgos crucifix

The church of Carmine

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Some prestigious works

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The interior and its masterpieces

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

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

A prominent church

A museum to save a tradition

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

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

New roads for Catania

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

The disastrous earthquake

The theatre of taste

Many owners, one palace

From International Gothic to present day

The Maiolica of the staircase

Searching for colour

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The Staircase of Angels

A city in colour

A feast only for Scicli

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Some masterpieces

Wonderful quick decorations

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

A talking palace

A Nobel Prize in Modica

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The Baroque town by the sea

Feast days

One city, two sites

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Feasting in Palazzolo

A square as the heart of the city

Between white and black

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

A symbol for the town

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A new site for a new city

One city, three sites

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

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

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Two illustrious patron saints

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The city of museums

A hall for the feasts

A small room with a golden entrance

A majestic and luminous church

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

A half-Baroque church

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