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.

From International Gothic to present day

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

One city, three sites

The colours of the cathedral

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The Staircase of Angels

St. Sebastian, so much work!

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Between white and black

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

Norman apses

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

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

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

Feasting in Palazzolo

The chocolate of Modica

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

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

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

A half-Baroque church

The internal colours

The two churches

The Maiolica of the staircase

A majestic and luminous church

New roads for Catania

Limestone, the colour of harmony

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

The wall comes to life

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

A museum to save a tradition

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The city of museums

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

Wonderful quick decorations

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A colourful floor

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The disastrous earthquake

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Some prestigious works

A long reconstruction

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

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

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A talking palace

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A new site for a new church

A city in colour

The Burgos crucifix

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Some masterpieces

A triumph of colour

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The interior and its masterpieces

The Baroque town by the sea

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Searching for colour

A feast only for Scicli

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

One city, two sites

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

A new site for a new city

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The theatre of taste

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Many owners, one palace

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The church of Carmine

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

A symbol for the town

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A small room with a golden entrance

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

An eagle-shaped city

A square as the heart of the city

A hall for the feasts

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Two illustrious patron saints

Prominent façade

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Feast days

Discovering the mother church

A miniature city

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A prominent church

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph