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?

The disastrous earthquake

Limestone, the colour of harmony

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

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

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Some masterpieces

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

A square as the heart of the city

Between white and black

A half-Baroque church

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

A museum to save a tradition

Many owners, one palace

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

The Baroque town by the sea

The chocolate of Modica

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Prominent façade

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

A miniature city

The internal colours

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

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The theatre of taste

A small room with a golden entrance

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

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The wall comes to life

New roads for Catania

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

A city in colour

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

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

A feast only for Scicli

Feast days

The colours of the cathedral

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

Discovering the mother church

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

A talking palace

Feasting in Palazzolo

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

Two illustrious patron saints

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

One city, three sites

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

A triumph of colour

A symbol for the town

The Maiolica of the staircase

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Wonderful quick decorations

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A colourful floor

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

A new site for a new church

A new site for a new city

The Burgos crucifix

Some prestigious works

The façade used as a puppet theatre

A long reconstruction

The interior and its masterpieces

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Norman apses

Searching for colour

A prominent church

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

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The Staircase of Angels

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The church of Carmine

A majestic and luminous church

A hall for the feasts

One city, two sites

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The two churches

The city of museums

From International Gothic to present day

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

An eagle-shaped city

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe