Agrigentino - Agrigentino

From Agrigento is the territory of the city of Agrigento on the Mediterranean side of the Sicily

To know

The territory of Agrigento includes both inland areas, where the green countryside turns into yellow expanses of dry grass in the torrid summer, and coastal areas characterized by the imposing presence of the remains of ancient civilizations (Valley of the Temples, Heraclea Minoa).

Territories and tourist destinations

Urban centers

Other destinations

How to get

By plane

• 37.46666715.0638891 Catania airport (Catania Fontanarossa Airport "Vincenzo Bellini". IATA: CTA), Via Fontanarossa, 20, Fontanarossa, ☎ 39 0957239111. 00:00-24:00. Airport for national and international flights.  
• 36.99166714.6069442 Comiso airport (Pio La Torre Airport, IATA: CIY), ☎ 39 0932 961467, @[email protected]. Airport converted for civilian use, it began flight operations in 2013 and is served by some low-cost carriers.  

How to get around

What see

• 37.2899313.472681 Scala dei Turchi.  

• 37.19487213.6615862 Punta Bianca (from take the then enter a dirt road. Check the location with a navigator or map.). A small beach on a promontory with white rock very similar to that of Scala dei Turchi. The place can be reached via dirt roads. The beach is theoretically off-limits to the public due to geological hazards, but locals go there anyway. On the site there is a former barracks of the Guardia di Finanza today in ruins.  
• 37.62392813.2193533 Bosco Collect. 
• 37.63789713.2695834 Gristia Castle (Next to the entrance to the Sosio river, near the bridge of the former railway). Located on top of the Sosio river. 

• 37.71169313.2064055 Abbey of Santa Maria Del Bosco, SP 35 (3 km from Contessa Entellina), ☎ 39 3333279514, @[email protected]. 5 € per person (Jun 2020). On appointment.. The beginning of the construction is not known precisely, but it is assumed that the primitive abbey can date back to the 13th century. The large monumental complex, an institution built to house the religious of the Benedictine Order and then transferred to the Olivetan Congregation, began in the second half of the 16th century and was completed about a century later, in 1644. With the introduction of subversive laws, the patrimony it was expropriated from the Church and sold to private individuals who have maintained it for generations. The complex includes two cloisters now used as accommodation and the church in ruins due to the Belice earthquake.  
• 37.50961713.2428146 Poggiodiana Castle (Near Ribera).  

Itineraries

• Street of writers - is an itinerary that develops along the between Caltanissetta is Porto Empedocle.

What to do

• Santa Rosalia itinerary - Tourist, religious and naturalistic route of over 180 km, between the provinces of Agrigento is Palermo, to be done on foot, by bicycle or on horseback, which winds through 7 former nature reserves now absorbed by the Monti Sicani Park and 15 municipalities (Santo Stefano Quisquina, Castronovo of Sicily, Prizzi, Adriano Palace, Bivona, Burgio, Closed Sclafani, Bisacquino, Contessa Entellina, Flowery field, Lionheart, Plain of the Albanians, Altofonte, Monreale, Palermo), connecting the Hermitage in the territory of Santo Stefano Quisquina to the Sanctuary of Monte Pellegrino through the places linked to the cult of Santa Rosalia.

The path, which is part of the Vie Sacre di Sicilia project, is made up of royal tracks, mule tracks, paths and disused railways. Funded by the Regional Department of Agriculture, Rural Development and Mediterranean Fishing, it was officially inaugurated on 4 September 2016.

Events and parties

At the table

Safety

Other projects

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