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.

A long reconstruction

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Some prestigious works

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The Burgos crucifix

One city, three sites

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

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The Staircase of Angels

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Wonderful quick decorations

Norman apses

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Feast days

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The Maiolica of the staircase

The two churches

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

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

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

The wall comes to life

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The interior and its masterpieces

Searching for colour

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

A hall for the feasts

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Between white and black

A majestic and luminous church

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The colours of the cathedral

Some masterpieces

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Prominent façade

A city in colour

A museum to save a tradition

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Connections with other UNESCO sites

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

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

The chocolate of Modica

Many owners, one palace

An eagle-shaped city

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

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

Two illustrious patron saints

A half-Baroque church

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

The internal colours

A small room with a golden entrance

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

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

The city of museums

One city, two sites

The Baroque town by the sea

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

A colourful floor

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

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

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The church of Carmine

Discovering the mother church

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

A triumph of colour

From International Gothic to present day

A square as the heart of the city

A prominent church

The disastrous earthquake

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

A new site for a new church

St. Sebastian, so much work!

New roads for Catania

A feast only for Scicli

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A new site for a new city

A talking palace

A symbol for the town

Feasting in Palazzolo

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

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The theatre of taste

A miniature city

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

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours