🔊 Listen Just 2 km north from Caltanissetta, it rises San Giuliano Mountain, a hill 727 meters high, on top of which it stands Ernesto Basile Square, which offers a beautiful panoramic view over the city of Caltanissetta. Since 1900 the squar…

🔊 Listen In October 1999, Sicily’s regional government founded the Natural Oriented Reserve “Monte Capodarso e Valle dell’Imera meridionale” to protect and valorise a rare and very precious set of historical-geographic, archaeological and geo…

🔊 Listen A special intensity characterizes Caltanissetta’s Holy Week, enlivened by involving religious processions that perpetuate centuries-old traditions. The whole starts in the afternoon of Palm Sunday, with the procession of Jesus that c…

🔊 Listen In the Middle Ages, the castle of Pietrarossa, called this way for the reddish colour of the bricks that cladded its three towers, stood out among all the castles that ensured protection to kings and nobles in the province of Caltani…

🔊 Listen The stories of compassion and devotion of the eighteen towns that form the dioceses of Caltanissetta,  a testimony of the most mysterious and solitary heart of Sicily, that inland rich with faith and hope, notwithstanding the toils t…

🔊 Listen 12 November 1881. Time: 6.00 AM.  The sulphur mine of Gessolungo. Caltanissetta. 250 miners are descending into the mine like every morning. An explosion of firedamp starts a violent fire triggered by the flame of an acetylene lamp….

🔊 Listen Notwithstanding its clear incompleteness, Palazzo Moncada shows, with its solemn and majestic façade on Via Giacomo Matteotti, all the nobility of those who built it in the heart of Caltanissetta. The foundation stone was laid in 165…

🔊 Listen Every journey has its mandatory stops: if you travel in Sicily and you visit Caltanissetta, you must see the wonders of Sabucina. 10 km northeast of Caltanissetta, on the 706 metre mountain that bears the same name, the Siculan-Greek…

🔊 Listen Every city has its main square: in Caltanissetta, the core of the old town is formed by Piazza Garibaldi, where the two main streets, Corso Vittorio Emanuele and Corso Umberto I, meet. With a vaguely quadrangular shape, the square ha…

🔊 Listen 5 km southeast from Caltanissetta, overlooking from the west the valley of the Salso River, Gibil-Gabel, the name given by the Arabs to identify the “city of the dead”, offers you the chance to  plunge into the remains of important a…

🔊 Listen The small church dedicated to the Holy Ghost and located a few kilometres from the city, dates back to the Arab-Norman period. Built in the 10th Century as an Arab stronghold formed by a farmstead, a corner tower and a big wheat barn…

🔊 Listen A new structure, recently opened, currently hosts, in Viale della Ragione, the Mineralogical, Paleontological Museum of the Zolfara Sebastiano Mottura, best known as Museo mineralogico di Caltanissetta, that was previously located in…

🔊 Listen Of the “big omega” of the sulphur vein of the Caltanissetta’s basin that unfolds through the mounts San Giuliano, Sabucina and Capodarso, (which remind an omega in the shape), the mine of Gessolungo is located on the highest point an…

🔊 Listen The name Saponaro Mine includes the five mines Saponaro Garibaldi, Saponaro Case Santi, Saponaro S. Francesco, Saponaro Redentore, and Saponaro S. Vincenzo, located in the same area of Caltanissetta. Today, of these five mines all is…

🔊 Listen On the right bank of the Imera River, just 3 kilometres away from the station bearing the same name, there is one of the most important sulphur mines in the middle of Sicily, the mine of Trabonella, which represents the most complete…