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 new palace for the La Rocca lords

The disastrous earthquake

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

New roads for Catania

The chocolate of Modica

The church of Carmine

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

An eagle-shaped city

The interior and its masterpieces

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

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A square as the heart of the city

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

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

Some prestigious works

A museum to save a tradition

The internal colours

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

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

A long reconstruction

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

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

A new site for a new church

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

Feast days

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Prominent façade

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The Burgos crucifix

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Wonderful quick decorations

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

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

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

Some masterpieces

Discovering the mother church

A half-Baroque church

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A feast only for Scicli

One city, two sites

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The colours of the cathedral

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

A small room with a golden entrance

One city, three sites

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The Maiolica of the staircase

A majestic and luminous church

A colourful floor

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The two churches

A triumph of colour

Many owners, one palace

The theatre of taste

A city in colour

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

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A prominent church

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The Baroque town by the sea

The city of museums

From International Gothic to present day

A talking palace

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Searching for colour

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Norman apses

Between white and black

The wall comes to life

A new site for a new city

A symbol for the town

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

Feasting in Palazzolo

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A miniature city

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Two illustrious patron saints

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

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

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

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

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The Staircase of Angels

A hall for the feasts

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra