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 small room with a golden entrance

Some masterpieces

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

The theatre of taste

The disastrous earthquake

Between white and black

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

The internal colours

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

A talking palace

St. Sebastian, so much work!

The Baroque town by the sea

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The interior and its masterpieces

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Norman apses

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

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

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

Feast days

The Burgos crucifix

A new site for a new church

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

A square as the heart of the city

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

An eagle-shaped city

A feast only for Scicli

A long reconstruction

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

A symbol for the town

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

New roads for Catania

The wall comes to life

Connections with other UNESCO sites

A half-Baroque church

Prominent façade

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

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

One city, two sites

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

The Maiolica of the staircase

A prominent church

The chocolate of Modica

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Discovering the mother church

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The colours of the cathedral

A majestic and luminous church

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

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Feasting in Palazzolo

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The city of museums

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

One city, three sites

A museum to save a tradition

A city in colour

A new site for a new city

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The two churches

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

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The church of Carmine

A triumph of colour

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

Modica, a city with ancient origins

A miniature city

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

Wonderful quick decorations

Many owners, one palace

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

Searching for colour

Two illustrious patron saints

The Staircase of Angels

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

A colourful floor

From International Gothic to present day

Some prestigious works

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

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

A hall for the feasts

A Nobel Prize in Modica