It is housed in a neoclassical building designed by the Acireale engineer Mariano Panebianco. It is the oldest Sicilian academy, founded under the name Zelantea in 1671. In 1834 it was merged with the congregation of the Fathers of the Study and in 1934 with the eighteenth-century Academy of the Dafnics. Since 1963, by decree of the President of the Republic, it has taken its current name and a new statute. The library holds hundreds of thousands of volumes, dated starting from 1461, including some incunabula from the 1500s. In the museum section, it houses an eighteenth-century carriage from the Acireale Senate, a collection of Greco-Roman artifacts, including the Bust of Acireale (a Roman archaeological find discovered in 1675 in the Capomulini district), a collection of weapons, some mineral collections, coins, and fossils.
Information about Zelantea Art Gallery
Via Marchese di S. Giuliano, 17
95024 Acireale (Catania)
0957 634516
zelantea@virgilio.it
https://wwww.accademiazelantea.it
Source: MIBACT
