An immersion among the most beautiful pictures of Montedoro  

🔊 Listen In Montedoro, it is customary to organise, on 13 December, on the occasion of the feast of Santa Lucia, the traditional “Sagra della cuccia”. Of remote origins, the cuccia is a dish mainly made of wheat and cooked wine: according to…

🔊 Listen A pleasant place and home to the Montedoro Observatory, the hill (up to 533 metres) is a destination for hikers and fans of archaeology. Indeed, the area has various Mycenaean Tholos” and oven tombs that date back to the Sican period…

🔊 Listen The feast of San Martino is a fat chance to visit Montedoro in autumn, even more if the long-awaited “summer” takes place, a few sunny days in a rainy an cold season. The feast is connected to the wheat cycle, right in the period pri…

🔊 Listen Since 2004, the Montedoro Astronomical Observatory is located west of town, in the point called “Pupiddru”, on Monte Ottavio. The structure, coated with Travertino marble slabs, has a turret surmounted by an observatory that can open…

🔊 Listen The Museum of the Zolfara, dedicated to Angelo Petyx, a writer and poet from Montedoro, was established in order to valorise and protect the historical–mineralogical heritage of the town, and holds the permanent exhibition “Zolfare e…

🔊 Listen The Solfara Stazzone (Stazzone mine), next to Montedoro in Località Stazzone, was a working mine property of the Caico brothers. It was already working in 1839, but today it is definitely closed.  

🔊 Listen Venue of the Museum of the Zolfara, it is the oldest of the area and belonged to the Caico family, one of the most influential families in town at the time of the intense Sicilian mining. There still is an ancient furnace used to pro…

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Montedoro, the Museo della Zolfara (Sulphur Mine Museum)

🔊 Listen In 1635, Don Diego Aragona Tagliavia Cortez, Duke of Terranova, requested and obtained the “licentia populandi”, which was the authorisation to found a new town in his estate of the “Balatazza” for cultivation and the populating of t…