PIANA DEGLI ALBANESI (80 km away) Piana degli Albanesi is the largest Albanian colony on the island, was founded in 1488 by a group of Albanian exiles, led by Giorgio Castriota Skanderberg, fleeing from Albania where there was the [...]
SEGESTA (85 km away) It was the most important city of the Elimi, a mixed population of Sicans and Anatolians to whom Ionian Greek immigrants were later added. It was the eternal rival of Selinunte and this led, after [...]
PALERMO (96 km away) Tied to Carthage after the Himera war of 480 BC, Palermo gains more and more importance in the political scene of the island, power that comes to decline only in 254 BC. with the Roman [...]
MONREALE (100 km) The town, preferred by the Norman kings as a summer residence, is famous throughout the world for the splendid cathedral and the annexed former Benedictine monastery with the remarkable 12th century cloister. The Cathedral of Monreale [...]
TRAPANI (118 km away) The ancient Sican name was Daprano, an emporium and strategic port of call for the Phoenicians who conquered it in the 8th century BC. Subsequently the center becomes even more important with the Carthaginians who [...]
Scala dei Turchi (48 km away) Realmonte is a small town in the Province of Agrigento. An element of notable landscape interest is represented by the "Scala dei Turchi", consisting of a spur of white marl prominent on the [...]
SELINUNTE (42 km away) Selinunte was founded by the inhabitants of Megara Hyblea in 628 BC. and it was the westernmost of the Greek colonies. Its name seems to derive from the wild parsley that the Greeks indicated as [...]
ERACLEA MINOA (32 km away) Located on the Capo Bianco promontory in a very beautiful setting where the very long beach and the pine forest at the foot of the cliff emerge. The place is ideal for taking a [...]
ERICE (124 km) Erice, previously a sacred city for the Elimi, was the site of a temple dedicated to the goddess of fertility, Astarte, according to the beliefs of the Phoenicians. The Greeks resumed the cult of the goddess [...]
Caltragirone is an Italian municipality in the metropolitan city of Catania in Sicily. It is the fifth most populous municipality in the metropolitan city and the first by territorial extension. It is the 23rd municipality in Sicily by population [...]
