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.

An eagle-shaped city

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Two illustrious patron saints

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The church of Carmine

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

Feasting in Palazzolo

Norman apses

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The two churches

A talking palace

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Some masterpieces

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

The Baroque town by the sea

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Searching for colour

A prominent church

One city, three sites

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Some prestigious works

The disastrous earthquake

The colours of the cathedral

Prominent façade

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The wall comes to life

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

Feast days

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Many owners, one palace

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

A new site for a new church

A triumph of colour

The internal colours

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The interior and its masterpieces

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

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

A symbol for the town

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The theatre of taste

A half-Baroque church

A miniature city

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A new site for a new city

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The Staircase of Angels

A long reconstruction

The Maiolica of the staircase

A small room with a golden entrance

From International Gothic to present day

The chocolate of Modica

A feast only for Scicli

Wonderful quick decorations

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

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

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

A colourful floor

A majestic and luminous church

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

The Burgos crucifix

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

New roads for Catania

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

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

A museum to save a tradition

A hall for the feasts

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The city of museums

One city, two sites

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

Discovering the mother church

A square as the heart of the city

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

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

A city in colour

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

Modica, a city with ancient origins

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

Between white and black

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano