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.

Discovering the mother church

One city, three sites

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

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

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

Some masterpieces

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Some prestigious works

The Staircase of Angels

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

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

The Baroque town by the sea

The internal colours

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

Feast days

Many owners, one palace

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A majestic and luminous church

Prominent façade

The interior and its masterpieces

Searching for colour

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Wonderful quick decorations

The façade used as a puppet theatre

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

A new site for a new city

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

Between white and black

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The two churches

The city of museums

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

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

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

A half-Baroque church

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A museum to save a tradition

A symbol for the town

Two illustrious patron saints

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

The disastrous earthquake

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The colours of the cathedral

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A prominent church

Limestone, the colour of harmony

From International Gothic to present day

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A miniature city

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The theatre of taste

An eagle-shaped city

One city, two sites

A colourful floor

The church of Carmine

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

A square as the heart of the city

A feast only for Scicli

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

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A small room with a golden entrance

The chocolate of Modica

The Maiolica of the staircase

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

A hall for the feasts

New roads for Catania

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

Norman apses

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

A city in colour

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The wall comes to life

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A triumph of colour

A long reconstruction

A talking palace

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The Burgos crucifix

Modica, a city with ancient origins

A new site for a new church

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Feasting in Palazzolo

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

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

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

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