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 hall for the feasts

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Between white and black

A prominent church

The wall comes to life

A feast only for Scicli

Some prestigious works

The theatre of taste

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

A small room with a golden entrance

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

New roads for Catania

A triumph of colour

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

A symbol for the town

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

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The Baroque town by the sea

Feasting in Palazzolo

Wonderful quick decorations

The interior and its masterpieces

Norman apses

The internal colours

A square as the heart of the city

The Maiolica of the staircase

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

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

Modica, a city with ancient origins

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Discovering the mother church

A half-Baroque church

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The chocolate of Modica

A colourful floor

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The church of Carmine

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

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

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Many owners, one palace

A Nobel Prize in Modica

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

One city, three sites

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

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

A city in colour

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A museum to save a tradition

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

A majestic and luminous church

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The Staircase of Angels

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

A new site for a new city

A talking palace

Searching for colour

The disastrous earthquake

The colours of the cathedral

An eagle-shaped city

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

From International Gothic to present day

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Two illustrious patron saints

A miniature city

A long reconstruction

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The Burgos crucifix

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A new site for a new church

Some masterpieces

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

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The two churches

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

The city of museums

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Feast days

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Prominent façade

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

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

One city, two sites

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

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