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 prominent church

The façade used as a puppet theatre

One city, three sites

A new site for a new church

A square as the heart of the city

Two illustrious patron saints

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

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Wonderful quick decorations

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

Searching for colour

A colourful floor

A triumph of colour

A majestic and luminous church

Some masterpieces

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

Connections with other UNESCO sites

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

A half-Baroque church

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The Staircase of Angels

One city, two sites

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Feasting in Palazzolo

Some prestigious works

The Baroque town by the sea

Prominent façade

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The disastrous earthquake

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

A small room with a golden entrance

The church of Carmine

The internal colours

A miniature city

The chocolate of Modica

Many owners, one palace

The theatre of taste

A symbol for the town

From International Gothic to present day

The colours of the cathedral

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

An eagle-shaped city

A feast only for Scicli

The interior and its masterpieces

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

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

A museum to save a tradition

The wall comes to life

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

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

The Burgos crucifix

A hall for the feasts

Feast days

A Nobel Prize in Modica

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

A talking palace

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The Maiolica of the staircase

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

A long reconstruction

St. Sebastian, so much work!

Between white and black

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

Norman apses

A new site for a new city

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A city in colour

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

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

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

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

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

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Discovering the mother church

The city of museums

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

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

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

New roads for Catania

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

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

The two churches