| Partinico | ||
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| State | Italy | |
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| Region | Sicily | |
| Territory | Gulf of Castellammare | |
| Altitude | 175 m a.s.l. | |
| Surface | 108.06 km² | |
| Inhabitants | 31.660 (2019) | |
| Name inhabitants | Partinicesi | |
| Prefix tel | 39 091 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 90047 | |
| Time zone | UTC 1 | |
| Patron | San Leonardo | |
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Partinico is a city of Sicily.
To know
The city where the film was shot The day of the Owl directed by Damiano Damiani.
Geographical notes
Partinico is 30 km from Palermo and 71 from Trapani, its Partinico territory has no outlets on the sea and the city is 7 km from it.
When to go
Being Partinico at only 175 meters above sea level, the temperature during the 12 months of the year is rather mild, with temperatures ranging between 10 and 18 during the winter months and between 23 and 32 during the summer months.
How to orient yourself
Partinico: full screen map.
Borgo Parrini
Fractions
- 1 Borgo Parrini - A fraction of the city that thanks to the intervention of a local entrepreneur has seen the ancient village flourish and be transformed into a corner with eccentric Gaudì-style houses. This intervention is arousing increasing tourist interest in recent years by bringing several visitors where there were only abandoned buildings.
How to get
On the train
How to get around
What see
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Church of Maria Santissima Annunziata
- 1 Church of Maria Santissima Annunziata, Piazza Duomo (at the center of Corso Dei Mille), ☎ 39 0918902105. It is the mother church which was built between 1552 and 1570 and was enlarged several times over the years, in the following two centuries.
- 2 Church of the Sacred Heart (Sanctuary of Beata Pina Suriano), Via Crispi, 96. It owes its construction to the homonymous association founded in 1861 with the aim of giving Christian burial to those condemned to death who were often hanged in the Piazza del Duomo. Here rests the body of Blessed Pina Suriano proclaimed as such by Pope John Paul II in 2004.
- Church of San Giuseppe, Course of the Thousand. It was built on the old structure of the Church of San Francesco Lo Vecchio between 1737 and 1939. It contains six seventeenth-century paintings.
- 3 Maria SS. del Carmine, Corso dei Mille, 250/252. The convent of the Carmelite friars, with the adjoining Carmelite church, was built in today's Piazza Garibaldi, in front of the Church of San Rocco, at the behest of the entire civic council in the session of 17 September 1634.
- 4 Church of San Leonardo, Course of the Thousand (almost opposite the convent of the Carmelite friars). It was built in 1634. Until 1819 it was used as the seat of the civic council.
- 5 Church of San Salvatore, Via Sebastiano la Franca.
- 6 Church of San Gioacchino, Via S. Gioacchino, 14.
- 7 Music Kiosk, Garibaldi Square. Of neoclassical taste.
- 8 Real Cantina Borbonica, Via Principe Umberto, 312, ☎ 39 0918913200. It represents one of the first examples in the world of a social cellar built by Ferdinand I of Bourbon in 1803.
- 9 Ram Palace, via Ramo. Mannerist-style farmhouse built by nobles from Catalonia in the 16th century.
Borgo Parrini
- 10 Municipal Villa Regina Margherita, Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, 70/66. Built in the nineteenth century thanks to the administrators of the time Poma Avolos and Antonino Ragona. The villa was inaugurated on May 18, 1883 and was immediately enriched by a marble bust depicting Giuseppe Garibaldi and one depicting Vittorio Emanuele II.
- 11 Villa Falcone, via Kennedy. It is dedicated to Giovanni Falcone, a Palermo judge killed by the mafia in 1992, in nearby Capaci.
- 12 Castellaccio. Military tower from the 14th century.
In addition to the city, a visit to the Borgo Parrini and its extravagant architecture (see above).
Events and parties
What to do
Shopping
How to have fun
Where to eat
Where stay
Safety
- 2 Civic Hospital of Partinico, Via Circonvallazione, 1, ☎ 39 0918911111.
How to keep in touch
Keep informed
TV channels: Telejato and TV 7.
