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 senses tell the story of the Badia di Sant’Agata

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Discovering the mother church

New roads for Catania

The internal colours

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

The church of Carmine

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A prominent church

The colours of the cathedral

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Prominent façade

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

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A long reconstruction

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A Nobel Prize in Modica

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

An eagle-shaped city

The city of museums

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The Staircase of Angels

A colourful floor

A miniature city

The interior and its masterpieces

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

A symbol for the town

The Baroque town by the sea

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

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

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

A talking palace

A small room with a golden entrance

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

A new site for a new church

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A triumph of colour

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A city in colour

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

Feasting in Palazzolo

The Maiolica of the staircase

The wall comes to life

A hall for the feasts

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

One city, two sites

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

A square as the heart of the city

A feast only for Scicli

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

One city, three sites

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The two churches

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

Two illustrious patron saints

From International Gothic to present day

Between white and black

Some prestigious works

A half-Baroque church

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

A majestic and luminous church

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

A new site for a new city

Some masterpieces

Many owners, one palace

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The chocolate of Modica

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

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

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Norman apses

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A museum to save a tradition

The theatre of taste

The disastrous earthquake

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The Burgos crucifix

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Feast days

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Searching for colour

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

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

Wonderful quick decorations

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

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