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 Staircase of Angels

An eagle-shaped city

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

A symbol for the town

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Some prestigious works

A new site for a new church

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The disastrous earthquake

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

Searching for colour

A new site for a new city

A small room with a golden entrance

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The interior and its masterpieces

Two illustrious patron saints

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Between white and black

Norman apses

A long reconstruction

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

One city, three sites

The Burgos crucifix

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

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

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A feast only for Scicli

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The colours of the cathedral

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Some masterpieces

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A triumph of colour

A city in colour

The wall comes to life

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Wonderful quick decorations

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

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

New roads for Catania

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A talking palace

Modica, a city with ancient origins

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The theatre of taste

One city, two sites

A prominent church

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The two churches

A colourful floor

The Baroque town by the sea

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

From International Gothic to present day

Prominent façade

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

A majestic and luminous church

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Many owners, one palace

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The Maiolica of the staircase

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

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

Feasting in Palazzolo

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

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

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

A miniature city

The chocolate of Modica

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The internal colours

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

A museum to save a tradition

Discovering the mother church

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

The façade used as a puppet theatre

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A hall for the feasts

Feast days

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

A half-Baroque church

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The church of Carmine

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

The city of museums

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A square as the heart of the city

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

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