🔊 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…

🔊 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…