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.

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

A triumph of colour

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A colourful floor

Norman apses

One city, two sites

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Searching for colour

Some masterpieces

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

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

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

A Nobel Prize in Modica

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

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A miniature city

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The disastrous earthquake

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

Prominent façade

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

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A half-Baroque church

A city in colour

The city of museums

The church of Carmine

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

A new site for a new church

A feast only for Scicli

A museum to save a tradition

An eagle-shaped city

Feasting in Palazzolo

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

A new site for a new city

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The colours of the cathedral

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

From International Gothic to present day

The chocolate of Modica

A majestic and luminous church

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

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

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

The wall comes to life

The Burgos crucifix

The interior and its masterpieces

A small room with a golden entrance

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The theatre of taste

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Many owners, one palace

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A symbol for the town

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

Wonderful quick decorations

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

Between white and black

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Some prestigious works

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A hall for the feasts

Feast days

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Discovering the mother church

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The internal colours

A square as the heart of the city

The Baroque town by the sea

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The two churches

A talking palace

Two illustrious patron saints

New roads for Catania

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

One city, three sites

St. Sebastian, so much work!

A prominent church

The Staircase of Angels

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

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

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

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

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

A long reconstruction

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The Maiolica of the staircase