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Palazzolo Acreide
The city of
Palazzolo Acreide (Siracusa). Useful information,
baroque photo gallery, churches and more... |
Akrai
The archaeological site of Akrai, city founded
by the Greeks of Siracusa in the 664 a.C.
Palazzolo Acreide (SR) |
House-museum of Antonino Uccello
Informative site about
the ethnoantropologist Antonino Uccello and
virtual visit of the House-museum of Palazzolo
Acreide (SR) |
IBLEI.it
Touristic portal site
about Siracusa and Ragusa. Archaeological,
ethnoantropological, historical, artistic,
naturalistic route |
Late baroque towns of the val di Noto (South-eastern
Sicily)
World Heritage List UNESCO
The eight towns in south-eastern Sicily:
Caltagirone, Militello Val di Catania, Catania,
Modica, Noto, Palazzolo Acreide, Ragusa and
Scicli.
The towns
of the Val di Noto represent the culmination and
final flowering of Baroque art in Europe |
Sicily Bed & Breakfast.it
The Bed and
Breakfast of the Sicily orders by province |
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Centro Studi Iblei
Documentation
centre about Antonino Uccello, the iblei area
and the province of Siracusa and Ragusa |
Italian ethnoantropological museums
Portal site about ethnoantropologic museums in
Italy |
Caltagirone's ceramics
Located in the historical centre of Palazzolo
Acreide, in this store you can buy various
ceramics objects |
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An
age-old agricultural and pastoral economy has strongly marked the
natural and socio-cultural environment of the area. The migratory
exodus of the Sixties and the Seventies, and the consequential
population decrease, caused a ‘fossilization’ of the economic and
cultural activities settled in the area, while the low-hills and
coastal area were involved in the industrial development after the
Second World War.
Medieval quarter
courtyard
Even if people refused
every expression of the rural world, a group of clever young local
volunteers, co-ordinated by Rosario Acquaviva, has intervened to
preserve cultural heritage since 1988.
The leading idea was
clearly defined: recovering the documents of popular world and the
relationship between man and environment and preserving the local
cultural signs.
These documents are not
exhibited in a traditional museum but displayed in their authentic
contexts, structured in several museum-units localized in different
areas of the small town. Every unit represents ancient places of
work and houses in which the visitor can see the original
socio-economical organization of the rural world.
Olive-press
So the museum is not a
container of objects imitating a disappeared kind of life, but a
vivid expression of cultural context of a community and the
relationship between man and nature.
This museological choice
created an ethno-anthropological itinerary. The sites of the
peasants’ work, which involves all the village, is the only
example of “museum-town” in Europe, still exuding the spirit
of different ages and peoples.
Past and present live
together: the old stone houses, the wine-press and the olive-press,
where agricultural goods were transformed, show us how people lived
and worked.
House of the
labourer - Courtyard
Sant'Antonio
da Padova Church (Sec. XVIII)
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 “A
casa ro massaru”.
The house of the farmer is the typical middle-class house of
the peasant class. The interior consists of four...
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 “Il
palmento”.
The wine
press is the place where the grapes were pressed; it dates
back to the early nineteen century and when it was rented,
it was covered by...
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 “A
putia ro firraru” .The
blacksmith’s shop is located in an artificial cave, probably
once a christian “hypogeum”...
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 “A
casa ro iurnataru”.
Inhabited by six people up to the Sixties, the
agricultural day-labourer’s house is a room of just 12
square metres. It is a meaningful proof of...
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putia ro quarararu”.
The tinker’s shop is next to the day-labourer’s house and
contains some tools belonging to a shop located...
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 “A
putia ro falignami”.
The carpenter’s shop displays
what has been recovered in Palazzolo Acreide, another
close-by town. It is in a courtyard below...
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 “U
trappitu”.
This is an exceptional building, dug out of a
cliff. It was an ancient place of worship going back to
Byzantine times and ...
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 “A
putia ro scarparu”.
The shoemaker’s shop has become part of the
museum after the death of the owner, the last shoemaker
in...
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 The
"putia ro scarparu"place also displays the tools used by the
dish-repairer (u rappuntapiatti) and some
objects mended by him...
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 “Il
ciclo del grano”. A stall has been used to display
all the tools and objects used for the work related to the
“cycle of the grain”. In a space with...
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 Didactic
laboratory.
This is the
place where students and visitors can take part in workshops
on grain grinding and bread making, using...
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 Popular
art section
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 “U
mulinu”.
The itinerary also includes the St. Lucia
watermill, in the area of Palazzolo called “the watermill
valley”, 10 Km. far from Buscemi. It is one of the four
water-mills started...
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