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 Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The chocolate of Modica

Some masterpieces

The interior and its masterpieces

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A feast only for Scicli

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

The Burgos crucifix

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The theatre of taste

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

One city, two sites

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

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

A small room with a golden entrance

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The Maiolica of the staircase

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

New roads for Catania

A hall for the feasts

A miniature city

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

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

The wall comes to life

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

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

A long reconstruction

Feast days

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

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

A new site for a new church

One city, three sites

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Some prestigious works

The two churches

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

Searching for colour

A triumph of colour

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A colourful floor

The internal colours

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

Feasting in Palazzolo

The façade used as a puppet theatre

From International Gothic to present day

A talking palace

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A half-Baroque church

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

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The Baroque town by the sea

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Limestone, the colour of harmony

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A majestic and luminous church

An eagle-shaped city

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Two illustrious patron saints

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

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

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The colours of the cathedral

The Staircase of Angels

The disastrous earthquake

Prominent façade

Discovering the mother church

The church of Carmine

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A museum to save a tradition

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The city of museums

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Norman apses

A new site for a new city

Many owners, one palace

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

A symbol for the town

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

Between white and black

Wonderful quick decorations

A city in colour

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

A prominent church

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A square as the heart of the city

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara