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 colours of the cathedral

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

A small room with a golden entrance

New roads for Catania

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

Feasting in Palazzolo

A city in colour

A colourful floor

The two churches

Many owners, one palace

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Some prestigious works

The church of Carmine

From International Gothic to present day

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

Between white and black

A prominent church

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The city of museums

The disastrous earthquake

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Two illustrious patron saints

The chocolate of Modica

The wall comes to life

One city, two sites

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

An eagle-shaped city

A triumph of colour

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A new site for a new church

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

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

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

The façade used as a puppet theatre

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

A talking palace

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The internal colours

Wonderful quick decorations

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

A miniature city

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

A new site for a new city

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A symbol for the town

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A museum to save a tradition

Discovering the mother church

A majestic and luminous church

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A half-Baroque church

St. Sebastian, so much work!

A square as the heart of the city

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

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

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The Staircase of Angels

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

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

A feast only for Scicli

One city, three sites

The Baroque town by the sea

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

Feast days

Norman apses

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

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

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

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

A hall for the feasts

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Some masterpieces

Prominent façade

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

A long reconstruction

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

The Burgos crucifix

Searching for colour

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The Maiolica of the staircase

The interior and its masterpieces

The theatre of taste

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

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

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