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.

Modica, a city with ancient origins

A colourful floor

A feast only for Scicli

The Staircase of Angels

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

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

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

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

The colours of the cathedral

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The interior and its masterpieces

Searching for colour

The chocolate of Modica

A small room with a golden entrance

A new site for a new church

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The church of Carmine

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

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

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Discovering the mother church

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A hall for the feasts

Between white and black

Feasting in Palazzolo

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The two churches

A half-Baroque church

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

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

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

A square as the heart of the city

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

One city, two sites

Wonderful quick decorations

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Some prestigious works

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Norman apses

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

New roads for Catania

A long reconstruction

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The internal colours

A talking palace

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A triumph of colour

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A city in colour

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A symbol for the town

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Two illustrious patron saints

A prominent church

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

A museum to save a tradition

Feast days

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Some masterpieces

The wall comes to life

The Baroque town by the sea

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

An eagle-shaped city

The theatre of taste

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

One city, three sites

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Prominent façade

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

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The Burgos crucifix

Many owners, one palace

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

A new site for a new city

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

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

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

A majestic and luminous church

From International Gothic to present day

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A miniature city

The disastrous earthquake

The Maiolica of the staircase

The city of museums