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.

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A colourful floor

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

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The wall comes to life

A talking palace

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A long reconstruction

The disastrous earthquake

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Wonderful quick decorations

The colours of the cathedral

Discovering the mother church

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A half-Baroque church

The façade used as a puppet theatre

One city, two sites

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

An eagle-shaped city

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A Nobel Prize in Modica

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

A miniature city

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The Staircase of Angels

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Many owners, one palace

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

The interior and its masterpieces

The theatre of taste

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The city of museums

The Burgos crucifix

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

A hall for the feasts

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Prominent façade

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

One city, three sites

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The church of Carmine

From International Gothic to present day

A majestic and luminous church

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

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

A new site for a new city

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

Norman apses

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Feasting in Palazzolo

A prominent church

Between white and black

Some masterpieces

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A symbol for the town

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

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

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

The chocolate of Modica

A museum to save a tradition

A square as the heart of the city

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

Some prestigious works

Two illustrious patron saints

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

Searching for colour

A new site for a new church

A triumph of colour

A feast only for Scicli

Feast days

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

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A small room with a golden entrance

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A city in colour

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The internal colours

The two churches

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

New roads for Catania

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

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The Baroque town by the sea

The Maiolica of the staircase