🔊 Listen The holy week is one of the most ancient and suggestive traditions of Cattolica Eraclea. Holy Friday is the day when the most fascinating ceremony of the entire week takes place: in the morning, at 12.00 am, the procession leaves the…

🔊 Listen The Morello River Valley is an area of great natural interest, with several mines, rural settlements and archaeological sites. The oasis’s main attraction is the Morello River that, with its thousand-year old activity of erosion, rev…

🔊 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 On the fourth Sunday of May, Casteltermini hosts one of the most original folklore events of the entire island, the “Festa di Santa Croce”, also known as “Sagra del Tataratà”. Its history is strictly intertwined with the finding of t…

🔊 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 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 Lago Soprano natural reserve is a protected natural area established in 2000, by a decree of the regional council for the territory and the environment. The Soprano lake, also known as “Cuba”, is a surface cavity typical of the k…

🔊 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 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 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 In October 1999, Sicily’s regional government founded the Natural Oriented Reserve “Monte Capodarso e Valle dell’Imera meridionale” to protect and valorise a rare and very precious set of historical-geographic, archaeological and geo…

🔊 Listen A special intensity characterizes Caltanissetta’s Holy Week, enlivened by involving religious processions that perpetuate centuries-old traditions. The whole starts in the afternoon of Palm Sunday, with the procession of Jesus that c…

🔊 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…