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 feast only for Scicli

Many owners, one palace

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The chocolate of Modica

The colours of the cathedral

Discovering the mother church

From International Gothic to present day

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

A colourful floor

A new site for a new church

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

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

A new site for a new city

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

A long reconstruction

Two illustrious patron saints

Wonderful quick decorations

The wall comes to life

The disastrous earthquake

The Staircase of Angels

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Some masterpieces

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

New roads for Catania

The church of Carmine

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The Maiolica of the staircase

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

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The interior and its masterpieces

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

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

A small room with a golden entrance

A miniature city

The Burgos crucifix

A square as the heart of the city

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A talking palace

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The Baroque town by the sea

The two churches

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

A prominent church

Norman apses

One city, three sites

An eagle-shaped city

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

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

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

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A majestic and luminous church

The theatre of taste

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Prominent façade

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

A city in colour

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

One city, two sites

A hall for the feasts

Feasting in Palazzolo

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A triumph of colour

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The city of museums

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A museum to save a tradition

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Searching for colour

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

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Some prestigious works

A half-Baroque church

Between white and black

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

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

Modica, a city with ancient origins

A symbol for the town

Feast days

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The internal colours

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras