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.

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

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

A city in colour

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

St. Sebastian, so much work!

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

Two illustrious patron saints

Prominent façade

A square as the heart of the city

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

A prominent church

A talking palace

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

A museum to save a tradition

The Maiolica of the staircase

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

Wonderful quick decorations

One city, three sites

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

New roads for Catania

The chocolate of Modica

The city of museums

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

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

From International Gothic to present day

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A long reconstruction

One city, two sites

An eagle-shaped city

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Norman apses

The Burgos crucifix

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

Between white and black

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The colours of the cathedral

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A feast only for Scicli

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

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

The interior and its masterpieces

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A hall for the feasts

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Some prestigious works

Discovering the mother church

A majestic and luminous church

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

A small room with a golden entrance

A half-Baroque church

The wall comes to life

Feast days

A new site for a new city

The disastrous earthquake

Feasting in Palazzolo

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

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

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

Connections with other UNESCO sites

Searching for colour

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

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

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A symbol for the town

The façade used as a puppet theatre

A new site for a new church

The two churches

The theatre of taste

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Many owners, one palace

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

A miniature city

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The church of Carmine

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

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

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

A colourful floor

The Staircase of Angels

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The internal colours

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

A triumph of colour

Some masterpieces

The Baroque town by the sea