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.

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The Maiolica of the staircase

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

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

A city in colour

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The disastrous earthquake

The Baroque town by the sea

The internal colours

Prominent façade

Searching for colour

From International Gothic to present day

Wonderful quick decorations

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

Discovering the mother church

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

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

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

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

The wall comes to life

A colourful floor

A square as the heart of the city

Norman apses

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Between white and black

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

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The interior and its masterpieces

A museum to save a tradition

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

An eagle-shaped city

A prominent church

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A new site for a new church

The chocolate of Modica

A hall for the feasts

A small room with a golden entrance

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A symbol for the town

Limestone, the colour of harmony

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

New roads for Catania

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

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The façade used as a puppet theatre

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

A feast only for Scicli

Two illustrious patron saints

Many owners, one palace

Some prestigious works

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The city of museums

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Feast days

A majestic and luminous church

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

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

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

Some masterpieces

One city, three sites

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Connections with other UNESCO sites

Feasting in Palazzolo

A long reconstruction

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

A triumph of colour

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

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Modica, a city with ancient origins

A half-Baroque church

The Burgos crucifix

The Staircase of Angels

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

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The church of Carmine

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

A miniature city

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The theatre of taste

The two churches

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

One city, two sites

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The colours of the cathedral

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A new site for a new city

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A talking palace

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo