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.

Connections with other UNESCO sites

From International Gothic to present day

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A symbol for the town

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

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

Wonderful quick decorations

The chocolate of Modica

The colours of the cathedral

The disastrous earthquake

A new site for a new church

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Modica, a city with ancient origins

Some masterpieces

Prominent façade

Some prestigious works

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

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Between white and black

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

Feast days

A talking palace

An eagle-shaped city

The interior and its masterpieces

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

A museum to save a tradition

A half-Baroque church

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A small room with a golden entrance

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

The wall comes to life

A hall for the feasts

Norman apses

The theatre of taste

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

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

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

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

A city in colour

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A miniature city

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The Baroque town by the sea

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

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

A feast only for Scicli

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Searching for colour

The Burgos crucifix

The Maiolica of the staircase

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

One city, two sites

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The city of museums

New roads for Catania

A colourful floor

The church of Carmine

A triumph of colour

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Feasting in Palazzolo

One city, three sites

A majestic and luminous church

A prominent church

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

Many owners, one palace

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A square as the heart of the city

The two churches

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Two illustrious patron saints

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

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

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

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

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The Staircase of Angels

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Discovering the mother church

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A new site for a new city

The internal colours

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

A long reconstruction

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca