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.

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The internal colours

The city of museums

A hall for the feasts

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

A talking palace

Feasting in Palazzolo

The Staircase of Angels

The Baroque town by the sea

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

St. Sebastian, so much work!

A new site for a new city

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A small room with a golden entrance

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A square as the heart of the city

The colours of the cathedral

A colourful floor

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

A symbol for the town

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The chocolate of Modica

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

Some prestigious works

The disastrous earthquake

A feast only for Scicli

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A prominent church

A city in colour

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The theatre of taste

The Maiolica of the staircase

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

From International Gothic to present day

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

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

A miniature city

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The interior and its masterpieces

A museum to save a tradition

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A majestic and luminous church

An eagle-shaped city

Searching for colour

A new site for a new church

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

Discovering the mother church

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

A long reconstruction

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

One city, three sites

Between white and black

New roads for Catania

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The Burgos crucifix

Two illustrious patron saints

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

Some masterpieces

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

A half-Baroque church

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

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

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

One city, two sites

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The wall comes to life

Many owners, one palace

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The church of Carmine

Prominent façade

Norman apses

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

Limestone, the colour of harmony

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

Wonderful quick decorations

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The two churches

A triumph of colour

Feast days