Italy
Sicily
Syracuse

Palazzolo

Palazzolo is a town of 8,000 people in the in the Hyblean Mountains. The town is listed as a world heritage site by UNESCO. The city has a lovely historic center.
Tap on a place
to explore it
comune.palazzoloacreide.sr.it
Wikivoyage
Wikipedia
Photo: AlexanderVanLoon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Codas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • Opening hours: 24/7
  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: comune of Italy
  • Also known as: “089015”, “Palazzolo Acreide”, and “Palazzolo Acreide - Nella lista I Borghi più Belli d’Italia”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Akrai: Archeologic park and Santoni.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.
Akrai was a Greek colony of Magna Graecia founded in by the Syracusans in 663 BC. It was located near the modern Palazzolo Acreide.

Photo: MarinaPNN, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The are a collection of statues carved into a rock face near Palazzolo Acreide, the ancient , in . The statues are the remains of a sanctuary for one of the most mysterious cults of antiquity, the cult of Magna Mater.

Museum
Photo: Codas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a museum.

Palazzolo

Latitude
37.0619° or 37° 3′ 43″ north
Longitude
14.9042° or 14° 54′ 15″ east
Population
8,570
Elevation
688 metres (2,257 feet)
Open location code
8F9P3W63+QM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11601442427
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
6539597
Wiki­data ID
Q489260
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikivoyage.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.

Satellite Map

Discover Palazzolo from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
© Stadia Maps, Airbus DS, CNES, PlanetObserver, and Copernicus

In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Palazzolo” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بالاتسولو أكريدي”
  • Armenian: “Պալացոլո Ակրեյդե”
  • Armenian: “Պալացցոլո Ակրեյդե”
  • Basque: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Breton: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Bulgarian: “Палацоло Акрейде”
  • Catalan: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Cebuano: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Chechen: “Палаццоло-Акреиде”
  • Chinese: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Chinese: “帕拉佐洛-阿克雷德”
  • Croatian: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Czech: “město na Sicílii”
  • Czech: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Danish: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Dutch: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Esperanto: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Finnish: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • French: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • French: “Palazzolo Acréide”
  • Georgian: “პალაცოლო-აკრეიდე”
  • German: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Greek: “Παλατσόλο Ακρέιντε”
  • Hebrew: “פאלאצולו אקריידה”
  • Hungarian: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Interlingua: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Irish: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Italian: “Comune di Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Italian: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Japanese: “パラッツォーロ・アクレイデ”
  • Kazakh: “Palaccolo-Akreýde”
  • Kazakh: “Палаццоло-Акрейде”
  • Kazakh: “پالاتستسولو-اكرەيدە”
  • Kurdish: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Ladin: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Latin: “Palatiolum Acrarum”
  • Latin: “Palatiolum Acreide”
  • Latin: “Palatiolum de Acris”
  • Latin: “Palatiolum”
  • Lithuanian: “Palacolo Akreidė”
  • Lombard: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Luxembourgish: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Malay: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Neapolitan: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Norwegian: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Persian: “پالاتسولو آکریده”
  • Piemontese: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Polish: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Portuguese: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Romanian: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Russian: “Палаццоло-Акреиде”
  • Russian: “Палаццоло-Акрейде”
  • Serbian: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Serbian: “Палацоло Акрејде”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Sicilian: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Sicilian: “Palazzolu Acredidi”
  • Sicilian: “Palazzolu Acrèdidi”
  • Sicilian: “Palazzolu Acreidi”
  • Sicilian: “Palazzolu Acrèidi”
  • Sicilian: “Palazzuni”
  • Sicilian: “Palazzuolu Acreidi”
  • Sicilian: “Palazzuolu Acrèidi”
  • Sicilian: “Palazzuolu”
  • Sicilian: “Pazzolu”
  • Slovak: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Slovenian: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پالاتسولو آکریده”
  • Spanish: “Akrai”
  • Spanish: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Swedish: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Tagalog: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Tatar: “Палаццоло-Акрейде”
  • Turkish: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Ukrainian: “Паладздзоло-Акреїде”
  • Ukrainian: “Палацоло Акреїде”
  • Ukrainian: “Палацоло-Акреїде”
  • Ukrainian: “Палаццоло Акреїде”
  • Ukrainian: “Палаццоло-Акреїде”
  • Uzbek: “Palassolo Akreyde”
  • Uzbek: “Palassolo-Akreyde”
  • Uzbek: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Uzbek: “Палаззоло Аcреиде”
  • Uzbek: “Палаццоло-Акрейде”
  • Venetian: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Vietnamese: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Volapük: “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Palazzolo Acreide”
  • “Palazzolo Acreide”

Places with the Same Name

Discover other places named “Palazzolo”.

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Palazzolo Acreide and Fontana Secca.

Syracuse: Must-Visit Destinations

Delve into Syracuse, Noto, Augusta, and Pantalica.

Explore These Curated Destinations

Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.
About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Palazzolo”. Photo: Codas, CC BY-SA 4.0.