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.

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Two illustrious patron saints

A colourful floor

A symbol for the town

The façade used as a puppet theatre

A hall for the feasts

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The city of museums

One city, two sites

The interior and its masterpieces

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A long reconstruction

A prominent church

A triumph of colour

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

A new site for a new church

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

One city, three sites

St. Sebastian, so much work!

A talking palace

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The colours of the cathedral

Many owners, one palace

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A city in colour

The Baroque town by the sea

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

The Maiolica of the staircase

A square as the heart of the city

Searching for colour

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Wonderful quick decorations

A half-Baroque church

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The internal colours

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The church of Carmine

From International Gothic to present day

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

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

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Norman apses

Prominent façade

A small room with a golden entrance

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The Staircase of Angels

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

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

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Connections with other UNESCO sites

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

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

New roads for Catania

Between white and black

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

Some prestigious works

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The theatre of taste

A majestic and luminous church

The disastrous earthquake

The two churches

The Burgos crucifix

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

The wall comes to life

A new site for a new city

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

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

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

An eagle-shaped city

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A feast only for Scicli

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Feasting in Palazzolo

Discovering the mother church

Feast days

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The chocolate of Modica

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

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

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

A miniature city

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

A museum to save a tradition

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Some masterpieces