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 San Giovanni Evangelista

The two churches

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The Staircase of Angels

New roads for Catania

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

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The church of Carmine

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

One city, two sites

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

Many owners, one palace

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A half-Baroque church

A triumph of colour

A miniature city

Some masterpieces

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

A new site for a new city

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A colourful floor

A small room with a golden entrance

A long reconstruction

Between white and black

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The internal colours

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A hall for the feasts

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

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

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

Some prestigious works

Prominent façade

An eagle-shaped city

A city in colour

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

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

A talking palace

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

A new site for a new church

Norman apses

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The chocolate of Modica

Wonderful quick decorations

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A prominent church

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A majestic and luminous church

Feasting in Palazzolo

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

Searching for colour

The Baroque town by the sea

Discovering the mother church

The interior and its masterpieces

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The disastrous earthquake

The Burgos crucifix

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The colours of the cathedral

A square as the heart of the city

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

The Maiolica of the staircase

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The theatre of taste

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The city of museums

St. Sebastian, so much work!

A feast only for Scicli

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A museum to save a tradition

From International Gothic to present day

One city, three sites

A symbol for the town

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Feast days

Two illustrious patron saints

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The wall comes to life

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

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

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

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

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

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras