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 Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A hall for the feasts

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A triumph of colour

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

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Norman apses

An eagle-shaped city

A square as the heart of the city

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The internal colours

Some prestigious works

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

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

The city of museums

The Burgos crucifix

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The Staircase of Angels

A miniature city

One city, two sites

Many owners, one palace

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

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

A new site for a new church

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

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

Wonderful quick decorations

Feast days

The Maiolica of the staircase

A small room with a golden entrance

Between white and black

A new site for a new city

A colourful floor

The wall comes to life

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

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The disastrous earthquake

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

New roads for Catania

The Baroque town by the sea

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Connections with other UNESCO sites

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A talking palace

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

Some masterpieces

A prominent church

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

The interior and its masterpieces

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

A city in colour

A feast only for Scicli

The church of Carmine

The colours of the cathedral

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

Searching for colour

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The theatre of taste

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

St. Sebastian, so much work!

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

Feasting in Palazzolo

A half-Baroque church

The two churches

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

From International Gothic to present day

The chocolate of Modica

Two illustrious patron saints

Discovering the mother church

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

A symbol for the town

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

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

One city, three sites

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Prominent façade

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

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

The façade used as a puppet theatre

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

A museum to save a tradition

A long reconstruction

A majestic and luminous church

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph