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 kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The interior and its masterpieces

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The wall comes to life

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

A miniature city

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

Norman apses

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The Staircase of Angels

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

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

Feasting in Palazzolo

The city of museums

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The Burgos crucifix

A triumph of colour

New roads for Catania

Some masterpieces

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

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

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

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

Some prestigious works

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

A new site for a new city

A feast only for Scicli

The church of Carmine

A long reconstruction

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The Baroque town by the sea

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Wonderful quick decorations

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Between white and black

An eagle-shaped city

One city, three sites

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

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Searching for colour

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The chocolate of Modica

Two illustrious patron saints

Modica, a city with ancient origins

One city, two sites

Discovering the mother church

A prominent church

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

The theatre of taste

Many owners, one palace

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A small room with a golden entrance

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

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

The internal colours

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The two churches

A new site for a new church

A majestic and luminous church

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A half-Baroque church

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

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

A hall for the feasts

Feast days

A city in colour

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Prominent façade

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

The disastrous earthquake

A museum to save a tradition

A square as the heart of the city

A symbol for the town

From International Gothic to present day

The Maiolica of the staircase

A colourful floor

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

A talking palace

The colours of the cathedral