An immersion among the most beautiful pictures of San Cataldo

🔊 Listen The ’ngiambella is a typical sweet of San Cataldo. It is a cookie that is celebrated every year, on 22 May, in the suburb of Santa Rita. Made of sugar, eggs, and flour from ancient Sicilian wheat varieties, it has a peculiar elliptic…

🔊 Listen Located along State Highway 122 to Serradifalco, this site was already known in the 19th Century, but the excavations started only in 1905, and until the ‘60s of 1900, they have returned important traces of the human activity, starti…

🔊 Listen This suggestive itinerary on the road to Gabbara, runs along a ridge that was used to carry sulphur on the back of mules. Besides the extraordinary presence of wild orchids, the remains of ruins related to the mining activity make it…

🔊 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 Since 1992, Gabbara has been a protected area identified by Italia Nostra and the WWF, characterised by downy oaks and oaks. It includes an abandoned mining complex open to visits. In August, the area hosts an important musical event…

🔊 Listen The Apaforte and Stincone mine still shows its past sulphur extraction activity. It is probably one of the most ancient Sicilian mines, working since the 18th Century. Today, what is still visible and open to the public is represente…

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🔊 Listen The current town’s origins are quite recent, although the nearby site of Vassallaggi reveals a prehistoric use of the territory. First a barony, and later a municipality, San Cataldo was founded in 1607 by the prince Nicolò Galletti,…