🔊 Listen The Mother Church of San Giacomo was built by the will of the founders of Villarosa, the Dukes of Notarbartolo. It was appointed the “San Giacomo Maggiore” Parish only between 1783 and 1784. The entrance to the Church is at the top o…

🔊 Listen The church of Calvario is located on a small hill that overlooks the town and is left unattended all year, so that, on Easter, it is covered in grass. On its peak, there are the three crosses, the final destination of the Holy Friday…

🔊 Listen The Mother Church, dedicated to the patron, San Giuseppe, stands in the 19th Century Piazza Vittorio Emanuele. Its construction is dated 4 May 1828. The citizens contributed financially and by offering free labour. The church interio…

🔊 Listen For those who, through the riveting alleys of the town and the historic churches, want to enjoy a nice overview on the typical landscapes of the Sicilian inland, we suggest a walk to the “Belvedere San Vincenzo”, in the highest part…

🔊 Listen Standing on the site of an ancient Muslim mosque, the church was built around 1374 by Giovanni III di Chiaramonte, who, in 1366, had become the Baron of Sutera. The Church is consecrated to Maria SS. Assunta. Four niches of gypsum mo…

🔊 Listen About three kilometres from Casteltermini, we find the Hermitage of Santa Croce that, notwithstanding the uncertainty about the date of its construction, is the most ancient church in Casteltermini. Inside, we can admire the suggesti…

🔊 Listen From the mountain, you can see it all: 22 towns, and the peaks of the Madonie and of the Etna. The staircase that leads to the Sanctuary is dug in the rock, and along the climb we meet the Stations of the Cross, the alleged prison of…

🔊 Listen The original structure in Romanic style dates back to the 15th Century. The church was almost totally rebuilt in the second half of the 18th Century, with the addition of a younger bell tower, recently refurbished. The interior is di…

🔊 Listen Observed by Piazza Duomo and Corso Umberto, Saint Joseph’s Church stands solemnly out on an artistic staircase, showing to the visitor its splendid architectural structure. The church, built in 1647, is the only church facing west ra…

🔊 Listen The tower was rebuilt on the ruins of an ancient watchtower, located right in the middle of the vast County, the ancient feud of 34.68 km2 (about 1900 salme), and visible from almost the entire territory situated between the Salso Ri…

🔊 Listen Casteltermini Mother Church, whose construction dates back to 1629, the same year of the foundation of the town, is located in the heart of the city centre. After a first execution relevant only to the masonry work, and completed als…

🔊 Listen Recently refurbished, the palace features some additions to the ancient central part, with a second lot of outer houses. The wall of the service entrance contains two columns that probably existed prior to the wall construction. Prob…

🔊 Listen The construction of the Mother Church, dedicated to San Leonardo di Noblac aka San Leonardo Abate, started in the ’40s of the 18th Century and continued for over 100 years. The church was consecrated in 1845 by Monsignore Stromillo,…

🔊 Listen The Sampaoloni (in the San Cataldo dialect, “Sampauluna”) are 3-metre tall giants of papier-mâché portraying the eleven apostles. They re-enact the traditional encounter of Jesus Resurrected with the Virgin and the Magdalene on Easte…

🔊 Listen The church of San Francesco d’Assisi, former church of the Capuchins, was also built by the will of the prince Giuseppe Galletti next to the former Capuchins convent, starting from 1724. The Capuchins remained in San Cataldo until th…

🔊 Listen The Mother Church, called in the past Natività di Maria, was built by order of the baron Vincenzo Galletti di Fiumesalato, marquis of San Cataldo in 1632. In 1695, due to the collapse of the right transept, the church was rebuilt ane…

🔊 Listen The Tower of Monte Taborre, granted as a defence by Philip III, and later demolished and rebuilt, the Tower of the Church of the SS.mo Rosario, of 1820, and the Tower of Cristo Re, destined to religious functions, draw a skyline of S…

🔊 Listen The Fontana della Rinascita was donated to Campofranco by the Sicilian Region when, in the regional elections of 1955, the town recorded the highest flow of voters in Sicily (99%). Designed by the architect Vittorio Ziino and made by…

🔊 Listen The Mother Church, dedicated to Saint John the Evangelist, was founded in 1575 by Giovanni Del Campo. The building original structure corresponds with the current transept of the Latin cross, which was extended in the 19th Century. T…

🔊 Listen The San Giuseppe staircase allows admiring the church with the same name from a privileged position. The staircase is one of the fundamental passages of the Riesi Holy Week and of the Feast of San Giuseppe on 19 March. During the Hol…