The Sicani Mountains are a mountain range in the hinterland of western Sicily, straddling the provinces of Palermo and Agrigento, which had a natural park created in 2010 whose status was revoked in 2018. There are several nature reserves: that of Palazzo Adriano and the Sosio Valley, that of Monte Carcaci, that of Monte Genuardo […]
12 kilometres south of Mussomeli and near the beautiful Platani valley, the medieval village of Sutera is listed among “the most beautiful villages in Italy”, benefiting in particular from one of the most beautiful landscapes in Sicily, on a hill, at the foot of an enormous limestone rock. A medieval village and one of the […]
A singular village: Albanian origins and traditions Like a few other Sicilian villages, such as Palazzo Adriano, Piana degli Albanesi has a significant community of Albanian origin, known as Arbëreshë, a population settled in Sicily more than five centuries ago, with the great immigration of the 15th century to flee before the Turkish advance. Piana […]
At the summit of Mount Jato (852 metres), the archaeological site of the ancient city of Laitas (or Laetia) occupies a very beautiful spot overlooking the Iato valley in the municipality of San Cipirello. The urban area covered about 40 hectares, protected on three sides by steep cliffs and on the south-east side by a […]
In the hinterland of Bagheria, not far from Palermo, Cefalà Diana is an interesting stop with its Norman castle and medieval baths (26 km from Bagheria and 32 km from Palermo), also close to the Ficuzza Nature Reserve.This area, served by secondary roads, has had a tradition of transhumance and cereal farming since antiquity and […]
About 50 km from Palermo, the nature reserve covering nearly 7,500 hectares includes several woods such as the Ficuzza woods and the Cappelliere woods, dominated to the south by the limestone massif of Rocca Busambra (1613 metres above sea level). It is a territory rich in water, with several natural and artificial lakes.At the end […]
Corleone is associated in the collective imagination with mafia families, having in fact long been a stronghold of bandits, particularly in the 1980s, with the bloodthirsty Toto Riina and Provenzano. This image remains attached to the town because of the Godfather saga by Coppola, despite the residents’ desire to distance themselves from it. In fact, […]
In the hinterland of Bagheria, not far from Palermo and Cefalà Diana, the San Nicola waterfalls (25 km from Palermo, 14 km from Bagheria), the village of Marineo (22 km from Bagheria, 30 km from Palermo), or the Ficuzza Nature Reserve, passing through the ruins of the Emir’s Castle in Misilmeri (10 km from Bagheria, […]
