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 Baroque town by the sea

The theatre of taste

The internal colours

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

Prominent façade

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

Searching for colour

The chocolate of Modica

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

Feasting in Palazzolo

A colourful floor

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Two illustrious patron saints

A long reconstruction

Feast days

The Burgos crucifix

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A majestic and luminous church

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The wall comes to life

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The two churches

A new site for a new church

A feast only for Scicli

An eagle-shaped city

One city, two sites

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The disastrous earthquake

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Many owners, one palace

A triumph of colour

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

Some prestigious works

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

A prominent church

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

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

Wonderful quick decorations

A miniature city

The Staircase of Angels

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

Norman apses

A new site for a new city

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

New roads for Catania

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A small room with a golden entrance

One city, three sites

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The interior and its masterpieces

The Maiolica of the staircase

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The colours of the cathedral

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

St. Sebastian, so much work!

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

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The city of museums

Between white and black

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

A hall for the feasts

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Discovering the mother church

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

A half-Baroque church

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Some masterpieces

The church of Carmine

A square as the heart of the city

A symbol for the town

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

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

From International Gothic to present day

A museum to save a tradition

A talking palace

A city in colour

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

Limestone, the colour of harmony