Palazzolo Acreide Museum of Travelers in Sicily
The Museum of Travelers in Sicily in Palazzolo Acreide , housed in the premises of Palazzo Vaccaro , collects notes and annotations, often accompanied by geographical maps and drawings, of those who between the eighteenth and the nineteenth century undertook the journey to Sicily attracted by classical antiquities, leaving a valid and irreplaceable graphic and descriptive testimony of historical-social knowledge.
The floor where the museum is located preserves valuable royal vaults in Hyblean limestone and is well suited to the exhibition logic that is articulated in a differentiation of services in the distribution of spaces.
Among the most significant testimonies kept in the museum are those of the French architect and painter Jean Houel who, arriving in Sicily in 1777, designed parts of the Iblean territory of extraordinary beauty such as Cavagrande and Vendicari as well as monuments rendered with the precision of a chronicler, reporting in detail in his writings and aquatints the aspects that characterize the Sicilian environmental and cultural heritage.
