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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
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The Bed and Breakfast of the Sicily orders by province

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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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Via Libertà 10 near Saint Giacomo church

 

Opening hours:

Monday 9.00 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. – 3.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.

Tuesday 9.00 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. – 3.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.

Wednesday 9.00 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. – 3.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.

Thursday 9.00 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. – 3.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.

Friday 9.00 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. – 3.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.

Saturday 9.00 a.m. to 1.30 p.m.

Sunday 9.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.

Holiday opening hours on request

 

Contacts

Phone number +390931-878528 or +390931-452932

Fax +390931-878721

E-mail info@museobuscemi.org

 

Director: Rosario Acquaviva

 

Laboratory and didactic coordination: Franca Vitrano

 

Association for the Preservation of the Iblean Rural Culture

President: Adriano Caligiore

Councillors: Giuseppe Acquaviva, Rosario Acquaviva, Salvatore Gervasi, Franca Vitrano

Staff: Giuseppe Acquaviva, Nelluccia Cutrona, Maria Di Pietro, Angelo Pinnisi

 

Credits

 

Webmaster Andrea Latina

Fund by Association for the Preservation of the Iblean Rural Culture

Translation by Amalia Albanelli, Rosaria Mostaccio and Angela Maria Seggio.

Thanks to all supporters, especially Giovanni Agnello, former A.A.P.I.T. director in Siracusa, Gaetano Pennino, director of Casa-Museo Antonino Uccello in Palazzolo Acreide.

Politic input:

Gaetano Giucastro, Giuseppe D’Angelo, former Majors of Buscemi, Sebastiano Carbè, Major of Buscemi and sponsor of the Civic Museum, Bruno Marziano, former President of the Provincia Regionale in Siracusa, Paolo Giansiracusa, and Domenico Cacopardo, Assessori Turismo of Provincia Regionale in Siracusa.

 Amministrazione Regionale Beni Culturali e Ambientali e dell’Educazione Permanente:

Assunta Lupo, Guido Mapelli, Orietta Sorgi.

Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali di Siracusa:

Giuseppe Voza, former Soprintendente, Mariella Muti, Soprintendente, Maria Teresa Di Blasi, Rita Insolita, Carmela Vella.

 Institutional relations, technical and scientific support and cultural contribution:

Sergio Bonanzinga, University of Palermo; Maria Bella, Cultural Association “Turiddu Bella”, Siracusa; Cetty Bruno, Museo della Civiltà Contadina, Floridia; Sebastiano Burgaretta, Avola; Ignazio Buttitta, Fondazione Ignazio Buttitta, Palermo; Gabriella D’Agostino, University of Palermo; Corrado di Pietro, Siracusa; Nuccio Gambera, Museo Civico Etno-Antropologico ed Archivio Storico “M. De Mauro”, Scordia; Girolamo Garofano, University of Palermo; Tanino Golino, Centro Studi Devozione Popolare, Canicattini Bagni; Giuseppe Leone, Ragusa; Melo Minnella, Palermo; Carlo Muratori, Associazione Folkstudio, Siracusa; Antonella Occhipinti, Chiaramonte Gulfi; Gaetano Pennino, director of Casa-Museo Antonino Uccello, Palazzolo Acreide; Rosario Perricone, artistic director of the Morgana Festival; Giovanni Portelli, Cultural Associatio “L’Isola”, Scicli; Nino Privitera, Melilli; Ernesto Ruta, Cooperativa Etnos, Modica; Carmelo Salemi, Sortino; Carmelo Santoro, Museo dell’Emigrante e del Tessuto, Canicattini Bagni; Sergio Todesco, director of Museo Regionale delle tradizioni silvo-pastorali “Giuseppe Cocchiara”, Mistretta; Paolo Uccello, Museo dell’Emigrante e del Tessuto, Canicattini Bagni; Marianne Vibaek Pasqualino, director of Museo Internazionale delle Marionette “Antonio Pasqualino” in Palermo.

 
Casa del massaro
“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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Palmento
“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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Bottega del fabbro“A putia ro firraru” .The blacksmith’s shop is located in an artificial cave, probably once a christian “hypogeum”...  

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Casa del bracciante
“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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Bottega del calderaio“A 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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Bottega del falegname“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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Frantoio“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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Bottega del calzolaio“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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ConciabroccheThe "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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Ciclo del grano
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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Laboratorio didatticoDidactic 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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Arte popolarePopular art section

 

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Mulino ad acqua Santa Lucia“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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