🔊 Listen The Chiesa Madre was built starting from 1720 and completed in 1732. The simple façade contrasts with the wealth of the internal stuccoes and frescoes; those of the vault, portraying Sant’Eligio and Santa Sabina are particularly beau…

🔊 Listen One of the most suggestive spots in Realmonte is certainly the Costabianca Theatre, located at the foot of the Capo Rossello Bay and surrounded by the magnificent crown of cliffs (calanchi) that forms the bay. The theatre structure i…

🔊 Listen The current church of San Domenico, located in Via Belvedere, rebuilt in 1870 on the foundations of the ancient church of Sant’Antonino, is the only church in Realmonte. Designed by the engineer Grimaldi, the building has one nave wi…

🔊 Listen Approximately 2.5 Km from Realmonte, you can visit the rock salt mine that, together with the mine of Racalmuto and that of Petralia Soprana, is one of three Sicilian rock salt mines still active. The mine is renowned for the quality…

🔊 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 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 On the eastern border of Ravanusa, there is the Sanctuary of Maria SS. Assunta, one of the most beautiful churches in town, held by the Franciscan Order of the Friars Minors who received it by the intercession of Filippo Bonanno, in…

🔊 Listen Strolling along Via Lincoln, you may visit the Church of San Michele, whose origins date back to 1750, thanks to the endeavours of the spouses Michele e Rosa Gallo. In fact, the story goes that in 1800, the church was called San Mich…

🔊 Listen The history of the Church of Santa Croce is made of small steps. In fact, originally (1895), it was only a simple Calvary lost in the countryside. Only later, in various phases, it became, first a small church, and then, with the spr…

🔊 Listen If you visit Ravanusa’s old town, you must stop at the Mother Church of San Giacomo, built in a Baroque style in 1632. On the high altar, the statue of the Sacro Cuore di Gesù stands out, while the smaller altars hold the statues of…

🔊 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 The Castle of Racalmuto was built during the Norman domination by the baron Roberto Malcovenant. Located in the heart of Racalmuto’s old town, the castle has the shape of an irregular pentagon, with approximately 2-metre thick walls….

🔊 Listen In Racalmuto, a town rich with water, there are many fountains; the most important are the “funtana di lu raffu” and the “funtana di li novi cannola”. The latter is located downstream from town, in the middle of the Square with the s…

🔊 Listen The castle is located about 7 km from Racalmuto, on the mount that takes its name. It is a structure built by the Saracens as a watchtower and turned into an actual fortress, called Castidduzzu, by the Chiaramonte. It is a powerful a…

🔊 Listen The Church, once dedicated to San Nicolò Vescovo di Mira, is now dedicated to San Rocco, the patron of Butera, since 1683. Butera has a relic of the Saint, donated by Frate Angelico di Spaccaforno of the Minor Observant Franciscans o…

🔊 Listen Dedicated to the Apostle Saint Thomas, the Chiesa Madre of Butera is in the northern part of town. Built starting from 1185, it was completed in the 16th XVI Century. The building layout is a Latin cross with one nave facing north, c…

🔊 Listen The only castle of the Caltanissetta province to face the sea, located on the central-southern coast of Sicily, in the territory of the city of Butera, between the cities of Gela and Licata, the Falconara castle is one of the best pr…

🔊 Listen In Racalmuto’s old town, there is the 1600’s Mother Church, once dedicated to Sant’Antonio Abate, and today dedicated to the Annunziata. Its name was changed into Chiesa di Maria SS. Annunziata around 1620, when the priest Santo Agrò…

🔊 Listen Only 12 km from Aragona, we find the famous Torre del Salto D’Angiò, called in dialect “a Turri” . It is a rectangular building, whose tower is decorated with rectangular battlements, two single-lancet windows and two mullioned windo…

🔊 Listen The Sanctuary, dedicated to the Madonna del Monte, has always been the centre of Racalmuto religious devotion. The church rises on the highest hill of the ancient medieval town, and it was built in 1738 by the will of the priest Piet…