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.

Searching for colour

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The Staircase of Angels

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

San Benedetto: a treasure reopened to the public

Baroque and the loss of equilibrium in the 16th century

A small room with a golden entrance

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

A prominent church

The city of museums

St. Sebastian, so much work!

A long reconstruction

Between white and black

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

Connections with other UNESCO sites

The façade used as a puppet theatre

The character of Badia Sant’Agata

A new site for a new church

San Nicolò l’Arena: an unfinished church

The senses tell about Palazzo Nicolaci

From International Gothic to present day

The Feast of San Giacomo (St. James)

A majestic and luminous church

Corbels: a celebration of the Nicolaci family

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

The kitchen, a treasure chest of colours

The Infiorata, a feast of colours and flowers

A feast only for Scicli

A design by Vincenzo Sinatra

From St. Thomas to St. Joseph

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

The chocolate of Modica

The cathedral of Sant’Agata: a lengthy reconstruction

One city, two sites

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

The Supernatural dimension of the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento

A half-Baroque church

The interior and its masterpieces

One city, three sites

Prominent façade

A square as the heart of the city

Norman apses

Feast days

Some prestigious works

The internal colours

Two illustrious patron saints

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

The two churches

A city in colour

Places of knowledge: the Benedictines’ library

New roads for Catania

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

A triumph of colour

Limestone, the colour of harmony

The senses tell about Palazzo Napolino Tommasi Rosso

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

A hall for the feasts

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The Barresi-Branciforte lords

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

A colourful floor

Feasting in Palazzolo

A symbol for the town

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Many owners, one palace

The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe

A miniature city

Rosario Gagliardi, the maestro of the Val di Noto

St. Agatha and the giant candelabras

The Baroque town by the sea

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

A new entrance for Santa Chiara (St. Claire)

The wall comes to life

A talking palace

An eagle-shaped city

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Discovering the mother church

The Burgos crucifix

The church of Carmine

Modica, a city with ancient origins

The senses tell the story of the church of San Giuseppe

Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata, who is the architect?

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Chiara

A new site for a new city

Militello, the story of an enlightened fiefdom

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Annunciation

The senses tell about Palazzo La Rocca

A new palace for the La Rocca lords

Fontana della Ninfa Zizza, public water in the town

The theatre of taste

Some masterpieces

The colours of the cathedral

A museum to save a tradition

The Maiolica of the staircase

Wonderful quick decorations

The disastrous earthquake