🔊 Listen In the heart of the Valley of the Temples, between the temple of Castor and Pollux, we meet a large green area known as “the Garden of the Kolymbetra”. Returned to its ancient splendour after years of neglect, this 5-hectare garden w…

🔊 Listen The Rock of Athena, or Minerva, is that echelon mountain that rises not far from the town, towards east. Tradition tell us that on this isolated cliff, 351 meters high, arose the temple of Minerva; certain is instead that on his brow…

🔊 Listen The Strada degli Scrittori is an itinerary that invites you to visit the places that writers lived in and loved, and those described in their books. An itinerary of about thirty kilometres, from Racalmuto to Porto Empedocle, going th…

🔊 Listen The Sagra del Mandorlo  is the most important folk festival of Agrigento. A festival that, according to the tradition, is held every year in early February and lasts a week. The purpose is to celebrate the coming of spring with the b…

🔊 Listen The Valley of the Temples has been declared in 1997 a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The park contains an extraordinary monumental and landscaping heritage that includes all the remains of the ancient city of Akragas. With its 1,300…

🔊 Listen The Museum is situated just out of town, in Contrada San Nicola, wherefrom one can enjoy a breath-taking view of the Valley of the Temples. The building was designed by the architect Franco Minissi and was built in the ’60s, in an ar…

🔊 Listen The Palazzo dei Giganti is located in Piazza Pirandello. Built in 1627, it was initially the Agrigento’s residence of the Tomasi family, Princes of Lampedusa and Dukes of Palma. In a second time, it became a Dominican convent and, fr…

🔊 Listen The monastery of Santo Spirito, with its imposing body, overlooks the eastern part of the city. It is undoubtedly the most popular of all the medieval monuments left in Agrigento. It was founded in 1299 by the noble marquise Rosalia…

🔊 Listen A little more than a kilometre from the city, set between the almond trees and the centuries-old olive trees of the countryside, we find the church of San Nicola, one of the most important examples of Cistercian Gothic architecture i…

🔊 Listen On the road that leads to the Cathedral, concealed in a small garden, we find this small Norman church built on the remains of an ancient Doric temple. The church, dating back to the 12-13th Century, is called “dei greci” because, du…

🔊 Listen The sanctuary of San Calogero is one of the most important and most ancient Catholic places of worship in Agrigento. The building, which was built between the 13th and the 14th Century outside the wall of the old medieval town, is sm…

🔊 Listen The Cathedral, founded in the 11th Century by the Bishop Gerlando (who later became the patron saint of the city), is located in the old town, on top of a stair flight placed on the edge of a cliff. Born of the great Norman tradition…

🔊 Listen One of the hidden wonders of the city’s old town is certainly the Biblioteca Lucchesiana. It was founded as the personal library of an Agrigento’s bishop of the 18th Century, Andrea Lucchesi Palli. Today, the library has over 45,000…