🔊 Listen The Oriented Natural Reserve “Foce del fiume Platani” is a protected natural area of Sicily, established to protect this amazing part of its coast. The reserve covers about 206 hectares and intersects the mouth of the Platani River,…

🔊 Listen The Eraclea Minoa beach is one of the most beautiful places of southern Sicily. Located between the Platani River and the promontory of Capo Bianco, the beach runs for about 6 kilometres in a scenario of rare beauty. The beach main c…

🔊 Listen The Villarosa station, destined to be closed, has been revamped thanks to the genial intuition of the station master, Primo David, who turned it into a characteristic Museum of the Mining Craft and of the Farming Civilisation in Sici…

🔊 Listen For those who, through the riveting alleys of the town and the historic churches, want to enjoy a nice overview on the typical landscapes of the Sicilian inland, we suggest a walk to the “Belvedere San Vincenzo”, in the highest part…

🔊 Listen The origins of this performance date back to 1890, when the Flight to Egypt of the Holy Family was re-enacted. An event of the Feast of San Giuseppe, on 19 March and on the second Sunday of August, Lu Tuppi Tuppi – the onomatopoeic t…

🔊 Listen Casteltermini’s history is double tied to that of the Cozzo Disi mine, one of the biggest sulphur mines in Italy, the driving force of the city’s economy, thanks to which, together with the contribution of many other mines scattered…

🔊 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 Next to the Agrigento province, in the western karstic area of Caltanissetta’s territory, we find Monte Conca, a limestone mountain characterised by the presences of grottoes and caves. The Monte Conca Integral Natural Reserve was es…

🔊 Listen During the feast of San Calogero in Campofranco, the simulacrum of the Patron Saint, portrayed with a white vest and a black cloak while holding a silver rod, is carried by the worshippers on their shoulders around town, in memory of…

🔊 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 On the second Sunday of September, Riesi celebrates its Patron, the SS Madonna della Catena. On the Saturday night before the feast, the pilgrims from the nearby villages get ready to meet the Patron by walking barefoot the road to R…

🔊 Listen It is the largest sulphur mine of the Caltanissetta territory, and today, it represents also one of the most fascinating examples of industrial archaeology of the island. The mine dates back to 1730, when the Solfara Grande was opene…

🔊 Listen Among all Realmonte’s attractions, the one that in the last years has aroused the greater landscaping interest, attracting tourists from all over the world, is surely the Scala dei Turchi, a rock wall (falesia) formed by a cliff of w…

🔊 Listen The feast of S. Calogero is one of the most playful in the entire territory of the Mining District. It is usually held on the first weekend of August, every second year with the feast of S. Giuseppe. The feast starts announced by the…

🔊 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 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 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 Madonna del Monte is the Queen and Co-patron of Racalmuto, and on the second Sunday of July of every year, she is enthusiastically celebrated by the town. The feast begins on the previous Friday, with the historical re-enactment…

🔊 Listen A new structure, recently opened, currently hosts, in Viale della Ragione, the Mineralogical, Paleontological Museum of the Zolfara Sebastiano Mottura, best known as Museo mineralogico di Caltanissetta, that was previously located in…