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.

The wall comes to life

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

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

A city in colour

A talking palace

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

One city, two sites

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The two churches

The disastrous earthquake

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

A feast only for Scicli

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The Maiolica of the staircase

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Feast days

Some masterpieces

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

St. Sebastian, so much work!

A half-Baroque church

A prominent church

Many owners, one palace

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

A square as the heart of the city

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

An eagle-shaped city

A museum to save a tradition

A small room with a golden entrance

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

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

A new site for a new city

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

New roads for Catania

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A triumph of colour

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

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Wonderful quick decorations

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

From International Gothic to present day

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The church of Carmine

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

A symbol for the town

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

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Between white and black

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The interior and its masterpieces

The internal colours

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

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

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

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

A miniature city

One city, three sites

Two illustrious patron saints

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The colours of the cathedral

A new site for a new church

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

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

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The city of museums

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

A hall for the feasts

A colourful floor

A long reconstruction

Prominent façade

The chocolate of Modica

Some prestigious works

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Discovering the mother church

The theatre of taste

Norman apses

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The façade used as a puppet theatre

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

The Baroque town by the sea

The Staircase of Angels

Searching for colour

The Burgos crucifix

A majestic and luminous church

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Feasting in Palazzolo