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.

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

The Burgos crucifix

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Discovering the mother church

Prominent façade

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

One city, two sites

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

A museum to save a tradition

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

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

A talking palace

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

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

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The wall comes to life

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A half-Baroque church

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A majestic and luminous church

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

A city in colour

A triumph of colour

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

The disastrous earthquake

From International Gothic to present day

A square as the heart of the city

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

A symbol for the town

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Wonderful quick decorations

Feast days

A Nobel Prize in Modica

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

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

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Norman apses

A colourful floor

An eagle-shaped city

A small room with a golden entrance

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

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The chocolate of Modica

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The Baroque town by the sea

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The theatre of taste

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A prominent church

The interior and its masterpieces

The colours of the cathedral

A long reconstruction

The two churches

A hall for the feasts

The church of Carmine

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Between white and black

A miniature city

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

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

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A new site for a new city

The Staircase of Angels

The city of museums

Limestone, the colour of harmony

New roads for Catania

Feasting in Palazzolo

A new site for a new church

Searching for colour

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The Maiolica of the staircase

Two illustrious patron saints

A feast only for Scicli

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

Some masterpieces

One city, three sites

Many owners, one palace

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The internal colours

Some prestigious works

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

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca