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

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Searching for colour

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Prominent façade

Feasting in Palazzolo

The wall comes to life

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

An eagle-shaped city

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

From International Gothic to present day

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

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

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A square as the heart of the city

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The Burgos crucifix

Feast days

Some masterpieces

Many owners, one palace

One city, two sites

A feast only for Scicli

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The church of Carmine

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

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

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

Two illustrious patron saints

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

A city in colour

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

Between white and black

A colourful floor

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The city of museums

A new site for a new city

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

A half-Baroque church

The façade used as a puppet theatre

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

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

The disastrous earthquake

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

Wonderful quick decorations

New roads for Catania

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

A symbol for the town

A majestic and luminous church

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Norman apses

The Baroque town by the sea

A new site for a new church

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A miniature city

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The internal colours

The colours of the cathedral

A hall for the feasts

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The Maiolica of the staircase

The two churches

One city, three sites

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A museum to save a tradition

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

A long reconstruction

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

Discovering the mother church

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

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

The interior and its masterpieces

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A prominent church

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

Modica, a city with ancient origins

A talking palace

Some prestigious works

A triumph of colour

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The chocolate of Modica

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

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

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The theatre of taste

A small room with a golden entrance

The Staircase of Angels

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