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 square as the heart of the city

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

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

The colours of the cathedral

A majestic and luminous church

Wonderful quick decorations

An eagle-shaped city

Many owners, one palace

The church of Carmine

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

A talking palace

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

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Prominent façade

The Baroque town by the sea

New roads for Catania

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A miniature city

One city, two sites

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

A new site for a new city

The wall comes to life

A long reconstruction

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A colourful floor

The chocolate of Modica

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

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

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The interior and its masterpieces

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

One city, three sites

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The internal colours

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A half-Baroque church

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The disastrous earthquake

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

A small room with a golden entrance

Feasting in Palazzolo

Feast days

The theatre of taste

Between white and black

From International Gothic to present day

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

A new site for a new church

The city of museums

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

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

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Some prestigious works

A museum to save a tradition

A hall for the feasts

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

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

Connections with other UNESCO sites

Norman apses

Searching for colour

A symbol for the town

A city in colour

Two illustrious patron saints

A prominent church

The two churches

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The Burgos crucifix

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

Discovering the mother church

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

A triumph of colour

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

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

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

A feast only for Scicli

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Some masterpieces

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The Staircase of Angels

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

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

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The Maiolica of the staircase