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.

One city, three sites

Between white and black

Modica, a city with ancient origins

St. Sebastian, so much work!

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A new site for a new church

The Maiolica of the staircase

The chocolate of Modica

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Some masterpieces

The two churches

Discovering the mother church

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

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

The theatre of taste

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

A long reconstruction

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

New roads for Catania

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

From International Gothic to present day

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

A square as the heart of the city

A city in colour

One city, two sites

The colours of the cathedral

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

Wonderful quick decorations

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A small room with a golden entrance

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

A colourful floor

Two illustrious patron saints

A feast only for Scicli

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Feast days

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

A new site for a new city

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

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

A triumph of colour

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

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

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

An eagle-shaped city

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The church of Carmine

The city of museums

A hall for the feasts

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

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

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The internal colours

Some prestigious works

The interior and its masterpieces

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The disastrous earthquake

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The Burgos crucifix

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

A museum to save a tradition

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A miniature city

The Baroque town by the sea

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The Staircase of Angels

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A talking palace

A prominent church

A majestic and luminous church

A symbol for the town

Many owners, one palace

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

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Feasting in Palazzolo

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The wall comes to life

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

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

Searching for colour

A half-Baroque church

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Prominent façade

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Norman apses