An immersion among the most beautiful pictures of Ravanusa

🔊 Listen Among the sweets, a special mention goes to the ricotta cheese mixed with sugar until obtaining a delicious cream to fill “li ravioli”, “li cannola” and the beignets. These, made with unsalted dough, are characterised by the final cr…

🔊 Listen In Ravanusa too, the traditional cuisine recalls the poor cooking of the past, which managed to prepare tasty dishes with few ingredients. But a special place is reserved for the dishes of pork meat, like the sausage of pork or mixed…

🔊 Listen The symbol of the city of Ravanusa, so much to become an actual slogan (“Ravanusa, città del Monte Saraceno”), this hill that rises close to town, is a place full of history, where nature and archaeology mix in an itinerary full of c…

🔊 Listen The Ravanusa citizens’ devotion for the Virgin has ancient origins. In fact, the story goes that on Monte Saraceno there was a Muslim fortress hard to conquer, and that Count Roger had put a siege on it, but his army was thirsty for…

🔊 Listen In Corso della Repubblica, a stone’s throw from the Sanctuary of Maria SS Assunta, you can visit Ravanusa’s Archaeological Museum that collects important finds coming from the site of Monte Saraceno. The museum is dedicated to Salvat…

🔊 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…

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🔊 Listen Ravanusa is built at the foot of Monte Saraceno, a place rich with history and the symbol of the town. To find the origins of Ravanusa, we must leap back about 3,000 years (10th Century B.C.), when the Sicans appeared for the first t…