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 city in colour

A talking palace

The façade used as a puppet theatre

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

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

The Baroque town by the sea

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A square as the heart of the city

A new site for a new church

From International Gothic to present day

Wonderful quick decorations

A museum to save a tradition

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Prominent façade

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A feast only for Scicli

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

New roads for Catania

Two illustrious patron saints

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A small room with a golden entrance

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

A majestic and luminous church

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Some prestigious works

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

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

A miniature city

A colourful floor

The disastrous earthquake

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Discovering the mother church

Some masterpieces

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The Maiolica of the staircase

The two churches

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

One city, two sites

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The church of Carmine

A new site for a new city

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

A prominent church

Connections with other UNESCO sites

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

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

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A triumph of colour

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A symbol for the town

The interior and its masterpieces

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The colours of the cathedral

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

An eagle-shaped city

A long reconstruction

The theatre of taste

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

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

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

Feast days

The city of museums

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

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

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

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Norman apses

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

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

One city, three sites

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Searching for colour

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The wall comes to life

Between white and black

A half-Baroque church

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

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

The chocolate of Modica

The Burgos crucifix

Many owners, one palace

The Staircase of Angels

Feasting in Palazzolo

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A hall for the feasts

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

The internal colours