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 miniature city

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Modica, a city with ancient origins

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

Wonderful quick decorations

A new site for a new city

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Some masterpieces

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

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Feast days

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Norman apses

An eagle-shaped city

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Between white and black

A prominent church

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The colours of the cathedral

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

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

Limestone, the colour of harmony

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

The Burgos crucifix

A museum to save a tradition

A square as the heart of the city

A small room with a golden entrance

A triumph of colour

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The interior and its masterpieces

A symbol for the town

A feast only for Scicli

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

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

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

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

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Searching for colour

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

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

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The internal colours

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

From International Gothic to present day

A new site for a new church

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Discovering the mother church

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The chocolate of Modica

The disastrous earthquake

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The two churches

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A talking palace

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

A colourful floor

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The Staircase of Angels

Prominent façade

Feasting in Palazzolo

The church of Carmine

One city, three sites

Many owners, one palace

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

Two illustrious patron saints

Connections with other UNESCO sites

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

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The city of museums

One city, two sites

A city in colour

The wall comes to life

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

Some prestigious works

A half-Baroque church

The Baroque town by the sea

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

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

A hall for the feasts

A majestic and luminous church

The Maiolica of the staircase

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

A long reconstruction

The theatre of taste

New roads for Catania