🔊 Listen Cattolica Eraclea is a town where, still today, religious feasts and popular traditions are well rooted, and the feast of Saint Joseph (the patron of the town) is one of the most popular local religious events. Every year, on 19 Marc…

🔊 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 Feast is held on the third Sunday of May to celebrate San Giuseppe Artigiano. Before the Church of San Giuseppe, a table is laid on a stage, with living characters, called the “tavulata di San Giuse’”: the table sits the Virgin,…

🔊 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 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 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 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 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…

🔊 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 The Sagra del Mandorlo  is the most important folk festival of Agrigento. A festival that, according to the tradition, is held every year in early February and lasts a week. The purpose is to celebrate the coming of spring with the b…

🔊 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 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…