Piazza Armerina is a pretty town of about 20,000 inhabitants, at 700 metres of altitude in the Erean Mountains, founded by the Arabs in the 10th century.It is famous above all for the Roman Villa del Casale, a few kilometres from the centre, a magnificent villa rich in extraordinary floors with extensive mosaics of 3,500 […]
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On a plateau at 948 metres above sea level, Enna is the capital of a Sicilian province and a small town of nearly 27,000 inhabitants, sometimes called the Belvedere of Sicily for its panoramas over a vast part of the island.Today it has a recent university “Università Kore”, the Pergusa motor racing circuit which was […]
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The Villa del Casale in Piazza Armerina is a unique example of a luxurious Roman villa, whose mosaics illustrate the daily life of the era and its social structures. These decorations, which cover a vast surface area, are remarkable for their exceptional quality and their preservation.
Antique
A few kilometres from Aidone lies the archaeological site of Morgantina, the remains of an ancient city inhabited since the Bronze Age by indigenous peoples, then by the Sicels, the Greeks and the Romans. Besides the archaeological park, there are other areas covering nearly 3 kilometres and several hills. The city controlled a vast agricultural […]
Assoro, perched on the steep hill of Monte Stella in the Heraean Mountains, at nearly 850 metres of altitude in the heart of Sicily. It preserves a well-preserved medieval centre, heir to a city inhabited since Antiquity by local peoples. Its main monuments — the Basilica of San Leone, with its early Christian crypt and […]
Located in the heart of the Heraean Mountains, the town of Aidone is often referred to as the “balcony of Sicily”. It took its name in the 11th century when it was Saracen, from the Arabic Ayndun meaning abundant source of water.Surrounded by green and fertile hills, Aidone lies equidistant from the three coasts of […]
In the Heraean Mountains, about 20 kilometres north-east of Enna, lie two pretty Sicilian villages a few kilometres apart: Leonforte, founded in the 17th century by the Branciforte family, and Assoro, of ancient origin, both of which were also medieval fortresses. The first has nearly 15,000 inhabitants, the second, smaller, 5,000. Leonforte and its territory […]
The village of Mazzarino seems a little lost in these inland hills of Sicily, in the province of Caltanissetta. It is perched on a small plateau at over 553 metres above sea level, with nearly 13,000 inhabitants (which makes it a small town). It is above all an agricultural centre, with significant production of wheat, […]