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 senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

A hall for the feasts

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The wall comes to life

The chocolate of Modica

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A majestic and luminous church

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Searching for colour

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Many owners, one palace

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

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

Feasting in Palazzolo

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

A triumph of colour

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

A talking palace

A museum to save a tradition

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

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

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

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

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Between white and black

A long reconstruction

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The colours of the cathedral

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

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

A symbol for the town

A half-Baroque church

The Burgos crucifix

A new site for a new city

An eagle-shaped city

The Maiolica of the staircase

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

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A city in colour

The internal colours

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The theatre of taste

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A miniature city

A square as the heart of the city

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The two churches

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

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The church of Carmine

The Baroque town by the sea

A small room with a golden entrance

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The Staircase of Angels

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The interior and its masterpieces

New roads for Catania

Two illustrious patron saints

Discovering the mother church

Wonderful quick decorations

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

From International Gothic to present day

Prominent façade

One city, two sites

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The city of museums

One city, three sites

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

A feast only for Scicli

Some masterpieces

Connections with other UNESCO sites

Some prestigious works

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The disastrous earthquake

A prominent church

A colourful floor

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

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

Feast days

Norman apses

A new site for a new church

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