🔊 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 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 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 The feast of San Martino is a fat chance to visit Montedoro in autumn, even more if the long-awaited “summer” takes place, a few sunny days in a rainy an cold season. The feast is connected to the wheat cycle, right in the period pri…

🔊 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…