An immersion among the most beautiful pictures of Favara

🔊 Listen The Agnello Pasquale (Easter Lamb) is a typical sweet of the Favara pastry tradition. The sweet is made of almond paste stuffed with pistachios, is shaped like a lamb, and is decorated with small bells, a red flag and colourful beads…

🔊 Listen Every year, during the Easter period, Favara holds a feast dedicated to the typical lamb-shaped almond paste sweet stuffed with pistachio. This pasta reale sweet is produced every month of the year in different shapes, but with the s…

🔊 Listen The Farm Cultural Park is one of the most important cultural and tourist centres of Sicily. The venue is the Cortile Bentivegna, a space formed by seven small courtyards that host small buildings of Arab origin. It is a project of re…

🔊 Listen Favara holds one of the most important remains of the ancient Sican settlements in Sicily, and the most significant evidence of the Sican presence is represented by the Necropolis, located in Contrada Stefano. The necropolis develops…

🔊 Listen The Palazzo, as it is commonly called, was built by Fredrick II of the noble Chiaramonte family, and recalls the typology of the “palacia” built by King Fredrick II of Swabia in Sicily and in Apulia half a century before. His use, ma…

🔊 Listen The monumental Mother Church, dedicated to the Madonna Assunta, is the city cathedral and represents the most important place of worship in Favara. Built between 1892 and 1898, it has a white stone façade decorated with mosaics made…

🔊 Listen Piazza Cavour is the town’s main square. On its eastern side, there is the Monument ai Caduti della Prima guerra mondiale , officially installed on 23 April 1922. It is a beautiful stone obelisk that stands out on a stone slab and be…

🔊 Listen The Ciavolotta mine is an old sulphur mine located on a hill between Favara and Villaggio Mosè, which is a suburb of Agrigento. Its first proprietor was Cafisi Paolo and his heirs. The mine has been one of the major sulphur mines of…

WHERE TO EAT NEAR FAVARA   AGRITOURISM REGGIA SARACENA Old farmhouse completely renovated in Mediterranean style, in which you can stay and enjoy typical Sicilian cuisine. Contrada Borsellino, SS 118 KM 139V – Agrigento Phone: +39 092 2418283 -…

🔊 Listen This peculiar town is located on a slope of a hill of about 700 m. Its origins date back to the remote Copper Age. In fact, the researchers found monochrome red ceramics in a grotto in Contrada Ticchiara. Favara too was not spared th…