Other Places

From 2019, the Archaeological and Landscape Park of Valley of the Temples has been managing, enhancing, promoting, maintaining and restoring a great variety of Cultural Places which are located in more than twenty suburbs of Agrigento’s province and include different cultural realities from Prehistory to the second half of the last century. The majority of these Cultural Places consist of different types of archaeological sites: hut and urban settlements, necropolis, monumental graves and graveyards, worship places, trading and production sites, cave shelters, luxurious residential places and many more. Moreover, some of the high-interest historical and naturalistic areas linked to peculiar natural phenomena belong to the Park’s management too; as well as libraries, churches and castles, museums and antiques inside historical buildings, aristocratic villas and abandoned monasteries. They keep permanent exhibitions where it is possible to find prehistorical handmade objects of thirteen thousand years ago and others which tell the history of the Greeks, Punics, Indigenous, Romans, Byzantines, Arabians, Normans and of all the populations who, for thousands of years, alternated in Sicily struggling over its domination. Among the Park’s Cultural Places, it is also possible to visit mines and mine extraction sites which have become museums in order to hand down to people important aspects of Sicily’s contemporary history and economy. The vast majority of these sites can be booked online. 

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1_Agrigento: Luigi Pirandello’s House Museum and Library
Luigi Pirandello's poetics is inextricably linked to the places of his youth, first and foremost the famous house where he was born. The house is located to the east of the Contrada Caos valley and dominates a plateau overhanging the sea with olive and oak trees. Although it stands on…
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2_Agrigento: Santa Maria dei greci
The church of Santa Maria dei Greci rises in the heart of the historical centre of Agrigento, almost on the top of the Hill of Girgenti, integral part of the ancient Akragas. The building was erected over an ancient temple of the classical age, perhaps already in the Byzantine period,…
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3_San Benedetto di Caltabellotta Archaeological Area
The important Hellenized indigenous site of San Benedetto di Caltabellotta district is characterized by numerous traces which identify it as a privileged place for human settlement already since the prehistoric age. Below the remains of the Greek settlement belonging to the 6th and early 5th century B.C., indeed, consistent traces…
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4_Vito Soldano Archaeological Area in Canicattì
Vito Soldano district, seat of a large late Roman settlement, known for a long time and investigated with various excavation campaigns since the late 1950s, extends a few kilometers east from Canicattì. The excavations brought to light a building with a thermal character, consisting of rooms strictly connected to the…
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5_“Di Pisa Guardì” Antiquarium of Casteltermini
The Antiquarium of Casteltermini exhibits a selection of artifacts found during excavations and field surveys, thanks to which it is possible to reconstruct the long history of the area. The most ancient testimonies are those attested on Monte Roveto, attributable to the ancient Neolithic, while some other ceramics found on…
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6_Heraclea Minoa Archaeological Area and Antiquarium of Cattolica Eraclea
The ancient city of Heraclea Minoa extends over a white promontory overlooking an enchanting seascape. Founded by the Selinuntini in the 6th century, the city soon went under the sphere of influence of Akragas. After the Carthaginian invasion of 409-406 B.C. Heraclea fell under Punic control. After Romans came to…
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7_Archaeological Areas and Castello Museum in Lampedusa
Archaeological presences on the island of Lampedusa are visible both in the suburban area and in the inner one, now occupied by the urban center. Outside the urban center, at Capo Grecale, there are some evidences known as “Timpuna”, ellipsoidal and circular structures, delimited by dry stone walls, whose function…
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8_Badia Archaeological Museum of Licata
The Archaeological Museum of Licata is housed inside the sixteenth-century convent of S. Maria del Soccorso, known as "Badia", of which the Museum mostly occupies the cloister and part of the ground floor. Inside the Museum, artifacts belonging to the most significant sites of the territory testify the presence of…
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9_Licata: Archeological Area Stagnone Pontillo
The site of Stagnone Pontillo is located in Licata, along the eastern side of Monte Sole. The area has yielded archaeological evidence related to a hypogeum context: a large rectangular room obtained at a depth of over 4 metres in the rock, with a small room of similar shape that…
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10_Monte Sant’Angelo Archaeological Area of Licata
Monte Sant’Angelo is located immediately west of the Salso river’s mouth, the ancient Hymera. On its southern slopes, an important settlement belonging to the Hellenistic period, identified as Finziade, the city founded by the tyrant of Agrigento Finzia in 282 B.C., has been brought to light. Thanks to excavations in…
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11_Canale District Archaeological Area of Naro
In Canale district, nearby Naro, there is a vast early Christian necropolis, dating back to the 5th-5th century A.D. Included today in a lush citrus garden, the necropolis is made up of four hypogea, which all have similar characteristics: they are all arranged around a long central corridor with North-South…
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12_Lauricella Archaeological Museum of Ravanusa
The Archaeological Museum of Ravanusa collects important finds from the site of Mount Saraceno. The finds, made available by the Soprintendenza ai Beni Culturali e Ambientali and the Archaeological Museum of Agrigento, have been set up according to an accurate exhibition itinerary curated by the University of Messina, which has…
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13_Mount Saraceno Archaeological Area 
Located along the valley of the southern Hymera, today Salso, which connects the southern coast to the inner part of the island, the site, which develops on the top of the mount and along the southern slope, has had a continuity of life from prehistoric age up to the 3rd…
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14_Villa romana of Durrueli in Realmonte
The maritime villa of Realmonte is located in the center of Punta Grande bay, at the mouth of Cottone river, a few kilometers west of the harbor of Agrigentum. The villa, overlooking the sea, is organized in two main sectors: a residential one, with peristyle-garden, cubicula (bedrooms), tablinum (living-room), triclinium…
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15_Poggio Diana Castle in Ribera
The Castle of Poggio Diana, near Ribera, occupies almost the whole summit of a hill that rises on the left bank of Verdura river. The building underwent various interventions and restorations over time, probably starting from the mid-thirteenth century. As a matter of fact, Misilcassim tower begun to be mentioned…
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16_Ribera: Necropoli Anguilla
The area of Contrada Anguilla is located a few kilometres south of the town of Ribera. The archaeological site consists of a prehistoric necropolis with about forty tombs of three different types: deposition in a natural ravine, cave tombs artificially dug into the rock and circular chamber tombs with a…
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17_Archaeological Area and Necropolis of Sant’Angelo Muxaro
Sant’Angelo Muxaro stands on the summit of a hill with steep sides, overlooking the Platani river (the ancient Halykos). The city, commonly identified with the mythical Camico, has been fortified by the famous architect Daedalus who, fleeing away from king Minos of Crete, found hospitality by the Sican king Kokalos.…
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18_Palazzo Panitteri Museum in Sambuca di Sicilia
The Archaeological Museum of Palazzo Panitteri displays the results of the archaeological surveys conducted in Monte Adranone by the Soprintendenza of Agrigento. The itinerary includes two sections dedicated, on one hand, to residential contexts and cultural and public areas and, on other hand, to the Necropolis. After the introductory room,…
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19_Mount Adranone Archaeological Area
The imposing ruins of a town, which lived between the 8th and 3rd centuries B.C. on the border between the Sican and Elymian-Punic areas of influence, stand on a promontory not far from Sambuca di Sicilia. From the contact with the above-mentioned different cultures derives the complex physiognomy of the…
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20_Monte Kronio Antiquarium of Sciacca
The museum exhibition occupies the rooms located on the top floor of the thermal complex of Stufe di San Calogero or Kronio caves, on the summit of the homonymous mount overlooking the city of Sciacca, famous for the importance of its hydrothermal basin for therapeutic purposes since ancient times. The…
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21_Tranchina Archaeological Area of Sciacca
Contrada Tranchina is located about 11 km east of Sciacca. The necropolis was discovered by chance by the landowner in 1957 and in 1959 systematic excavations were carried out by Santo Tinè. The necropolis sector currently in light extends for about 5000 square meters; the tombs are mostly characterized by…
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