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.

A long reconstruction

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

The colours of the cathedral

A talking palace

New roads for Catania

A colourful floor

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

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

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

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

A prominent church

The interior and its masterpieces

Between white and black

Two illustrious patron saints

Modica, a city with ancient origins

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

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The internal colours

Some masterpieces

Discovering the mother church

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

One city, two sites

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A museum to save a tradition

Many owners, one palace

Wonderful quick decorations

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

A triumph of colour

A half-Baroque church

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A small room with a golden entrance

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

A new site for a new church

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

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The chocolate of Modica

A miniature city

The church of Carmine

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A hall for the feasts

An eagle-shaped city

A new site for a new city

The Burgos crucifix

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

The disastrous earthquake

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

From International Gothic to present day

Feast days

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The theatre of taste

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

A feast only for Scicli

A majestic and luminous church

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

One city, three sites

Norman apses

The Maiolica of the staircase

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Searching for colour

Prominent façade

The Baroque town by the sea

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

A city in colour

The two churches

The wall comes to life

A square as the heart of the city

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The city of museums

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A symbol for the town

Feasting in Palazzolo

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

The Staircase of Angels

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Some prestigious works

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation