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 Baroque town by the sea

A majestic and luminous church

Searching for colour

Feast days

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

A symbol for the town

The church of Carmine

A prominent church

St. Sebastian, so much work!

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

Wonderful quick decorations

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A new site for a new church

New roads for Catania

From International Gothic to present day

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Two illustrious patron saints

A new site for a new city

Discovering the mother church

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

An eagle-shaped city

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A half-Baroque church

A city in colour

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

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

Norman apses

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

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

A colourful floor

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

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The colours of the cathedral

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

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

A small room with a golden entrance

The chocolate of Modica

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

A feast only for Scicli

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

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

Prominent façade

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A square as the heart of the city

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The theatre of taste

The Burgos crucifix

A miniature city

A long reconstruction

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

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

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The internal colours

A hall for the feasts

Between white and black

The disastrous earthquake

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Many owners, one palace

The wall comes to life

A triumph of colour

The Maiolica of the staircase

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Some prestigious works

The city of museums

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Modica, a city with ancient origins

A museum to save a tradition

A talking palace

The interior and its masterpieces

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Feasting in Palazzolo

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The two churches

Some masterpieces

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The Staircase of Angels

One city, three sites

Limestone, the colour of harmony