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.

Modica, a city with ancient origins

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

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

The wall comes to life

One city, two sites

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

Between white and black

An eagle-shaped city

The façade used as a puppet theatre

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

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

A square as the heart of the city

A long reconstruction

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The church of Carmine

A prominent church

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

The city of museums

The Staircase of Angels

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The disastrous earthquake

A talking palace

One city, three sites

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

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Norman apses

From International Gothic to present day

A new site for a new city

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The interior and its masterpieces

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

Discovering the mother church

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

A hall for the feasts

Feasting in Palazzolo

A majestic and luminous church

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Limestone, the colour of harmony

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

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

The colours of the cathedral

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Wonderful quick decorations

A triumph of colour

A miniature city

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Two illustrious patron saints

A city in colour

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Feast days

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

The theatre of taste

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

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

The Maiolica of the staircase

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

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

A new site for a new church

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The Baroque town by the sea

Some masterpieces

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Many owners, one palace

A museum to save a tradition

The two churches

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The Burgos crucifix

A half-Baroque church

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Searching for colour

The internal colours

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

New roads for Catania

Connections with other UNESCO sites

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

The chocolate of Modica

A small room with a golden entrance

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A colourful floor

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

Some prestigious works

Prominent façade

A feast only for Scicli

A symbol for the town