🔊 Listen On the right bank of the Imera River, just 3 kilometres away from the station bearing the same name, there is one of the most important sulphur mines in the middle of Sicily, the mine of Trabonella, which represents the most complete…

🔊 Listen The only castle of the Caltanissetta province to face the sea, located on the central-southern coast of Sicily, in the territory of the city of Butera, between the cities of Gela and Licata, the Falconara castle is one of the best pr…

🔊 Listen Racalmuto is a town of significant geological interest for the presence of the rock salt mine. Apparently, this salt bed, together with those of Realmonte and Petralia, is the third in the world still active. This mine is formed by a…

🔊 Listen Perhaps not everyone knows that Vigàta is an imaginary town, created by the writer Andrea Camilleri as the set for the adventures of Commissario Montalbano and others of his novels. Actually, Vigàta represents Porto Empedocle, the ho…

🔊 Listen One of the most important and busiest beaches of Porto Empedocle is the Chaos (Caos) beach. It is a beautiful beach where you can get your suntan on fine golden sand and swim in truly unique crystal clear waters.    

🔊 Listen From July till September, a very rich programme offers various cultural and musical events, with various cultural meetings and Literary Cafés. The baglio  of Charles V’s Tower hosts various art exhibitions free of charge. There are m…

🔊 Listen The Valley of the Temples has been declared in 1997 a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The park contains an extraordinary monumental and landscaping heritage that includes all the remains of the ancient city of Akragas. With its 1,300…

🔊 Listen The patron saint of Mussomeli is the Madonna dei SS. Miracoli, to whom is dedicated, on 8 September of every year, the patronal feast, which attracts a great number of followers and the curious from Italy and from abroad. On the occa…

🔊 Listen 60 km west of Caltanissetta, a 780-metre high limestone rock is overlooked by the Castle of Mussomeli, built on pre-existing Suevian structures by Manfredi III Chiaramonte between 1364 and 1367, as his residence, 2 km away from the c…

🔊 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 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…