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.

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

A long reconstruction

A feast only for Scicli

The chocolate of Modica

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A prominent church

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

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

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Wonderful quick decorations

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

New roads for Catania

The Burgos crucifix

A small room with a golden entrance

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

A colourful floor

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The church of Carmine

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

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

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A museum to save a tradition

A miniature city

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

A triumph of colour

The disastrous earthquake

The Staircase of Angels

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

From International Gothic to present day

The two churches

The wall comes to life

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

Many owners, one palace

A hall for the feasts

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

St. Sebastian, so much work!

One city, two sites

A new site for a new city

The Maiolica of the staircase

A majestic and luminous church

A symbol for the town

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Connections with other UNESCO sites

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

The interior and its masterpieces

A square as the heart of the city

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

A half-Baroque church

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

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Searching for colour

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The theatre of taste

Between white and black

Two illustrious patron saints

Norman apses

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A new site for a new church

A Nobel Prize in Modica

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Prominent façade

Some masterpieces

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

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Discovering the mother church

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

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A talking palace

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

Feast days

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Some prestigious works

The Baroque town by the sea

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

An eagle-shaped city

The city of museums

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

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

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

The colours of the cathedral

Feasting in Palazzolo

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

One city, three sites

A city in colour

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The internal colours