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.

Feast days

The two churches

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

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

The interior and its masterpieces

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The Maiolica of the staircase

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

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Searching for colour

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

Prominent façade

A square as the heart of the city

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

A museum to save a tradition

A talking palace

Wonderful quick decorations

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

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

The colours of the cathedral

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The Staircase of Angels

One city, three sites

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A half-Baroque church

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

A majestic and luminous church

The church of Carmine

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A prominent church

The internal colours

A long reconstruction

A feast only for Scicli

The Burgos crucifix

New roads for Catania

The city of museums

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

Some masterpieces

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

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The wall comes to life

A new site for a new city

A colourful floor

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

A small room with a golden entrance

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A symbol for the town

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

An eagle-shaped city

A triumph of colour

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The Baroque town by the sea

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

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Two illustrious patron saints

Feasting in Palazzolo

Norman apses

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Many owners, one palace

The chocolate of Modica

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

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

A hall for the feasts

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A new site for a new church

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Between white and black

A city in colour

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

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Discovering the mother church

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

One city, two sites

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The theatre of taste

Connections with other UNESCO sites

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Some prestigious works

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The disastrous earthquake

A miniature city

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

From International Gothic to present day