Palazzolo

A small museum that displays maps, books and prints by travellers who visited Sicily and described it, especially during the Grand Tour. The beautiful engravings are original, and there is also a rare first edition of De rebus Siculis by Fazello.

Along the Palazzolo valley there is a 16th-century water mill that still preserves its parts powered by the stream. Inside there is also a Museum of the Grain Mill.

The church, built in 1720/30 on the site of a previous church, has a beautiful baroque façade and many altars with colored marble inlays inside. Inside is kept the statue of St. Paul that comes out in procession on June 29 with a spectacular celebration. The church is the cent of devotion of the inhabitants of the district.

Built after the earthquake of 1693 on the site of a previous church. Today it has three naves with a linear baroque façade.

Rebuilt after the earthquake of 1693 under the direction of the architect Mario Diamanti from Syracuse in 1724-1725, the first part of the facade was built, while the upper part was finished in 1768, the organ is dated 1728/9. In this church every year on August 10th the spectacular feast of San Sebastiano is celebrated.

Rebuilt under the local architect Matteo Travisi. It has a suggestive facade with spiral columns that make the church if not one of the most beautiful certainly one of the most extraordinary in Palazzolo Acreide. Inside, until 1906, there was the painting of the Annunciation by the master Antonello da Messina, which can be admired today after the restoration at the Bellomo Gallery in Syracuse. Behind a wooden altar is the painting Madonna del Carmelo created by Marcello Vieri in 1785 and a wooden sculpture of the Madonna from the 18th century. There is also a large painting of the Annunciation by Paolo Tanasi from 1827, in a side chapel and another painting of St. Paul of Padua by the same artist.

Rebuilt at the beginning of the 18th century on the ruins of the previous church. The right bell tower was completed in 1815 while the left one was not completed.

It was built in 1721-1722 under the direction of the architect Giuseppe Ferrara, the church has three naves and a simple baroque façade, inside a noteworthy painting by Michele Antonino Bova.

It was rebuilt together with the convent of the minors after the earthquake in Baroque style, with an extraordinarily curved facade. Inside you can see the marble statue of the Madonna with Child by Francesco Laurana from 1471/72 and a painting depicting a scene of the crucifixion by Paolo Tanasi from 1818. The convex facade seems to recall the facades of the churches in via Crociferi in Catania.

A 50-km cycle route, sometimes arduous, along the former railway line that also runs through the Pantalica, with beautiful views and tunnels between Ragusa and Siracusa.