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 internal colours

Between white and black

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

A symbol for the town

A majestic and luminous church

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

A long reconstruction

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

The theatre of taste

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Feasting in Palazzolo

The city of museums

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

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

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

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

The wall comes to life

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

The church of Carmine

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

Limestone, the colour of harmony

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

A small room with a golden entrance

The two churches

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

Norman apses

Some masterpieces

The chocolate of Modica

Discovering the mother church

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

The disastrous earthquake

A colourful floor

New roads for Catania

Feast days

The façade used as a puppet theatre

Many owners, one palace

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A feast only for Scicli

A new site for a new church

A city in colour

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

The interior and its masterpieces

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A museum to save a tradition

One city, three sites

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

A prominent church

A half-Baroque church

Connections with other UNESCO sites

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

A hall for the feasts

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

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

A miniature city

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

From International Gothic to present day

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

A talking palace

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A square as the heart of the city

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

Wonderful quick decorations

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

St. Sebastian, so much work!

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The Staircase of Angels

A triumph of colour

The Burgos crucifix

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

Searching for colour

The Maiolica of the staircase

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

The colours of the cathedral

Some prestigious works

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The Baroque town by the sea

A new site for a new city

Two illustrious patron saints

One city, two sites

An eagle-shaped city

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

Modica, a city with ancient origins

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

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

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

Prominent façade