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.

An eagle-shaped city

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

A long reconstruction

The Burgos crucifix

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Sebastiano

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

Some masterpieces

A triumph of colour

Norman apses

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The interior and its masterpieces

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

New roads for Catania

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

A half-Baroque church

The Maiolica of the staircase

St. Sebastian, so much work!

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

The disastrous earthquake

Some prestigious works

A new site for a new church

The city of museums

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

Searching for colour

Feasting in Palazzolo

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

A city in colour

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

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

A hall for the feasts

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The wall comes to life

Wonderful quick decorations

A museum to save a tradition

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

A majestic and luminous church

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

From International Gothic to present day

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

The Baroque town by the sea

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A talking palace

Two illustrious patron saints

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Between white and black

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

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

One city, two sites

Feast days

The internal colours

Limestone, the colour of harmony

Modica, a city with ancient origins

A prominent church

The two churches

A small room with a golden entrance

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Discovering the mother church

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

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A colourful floor

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

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

The colours of the cathedral

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

Many owners, one palace

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The façade used as a puppet theatre

A new site for a new city

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The chocolate of Modica

A miniature city

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

A symbol for the town

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

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

Prominent façade

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

The church of Carmine

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

A feast only for Scicli

The Staircase of Angels

The theatre of taste

A square as the heart of the city

One city, three sites

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library