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Archeology in Western Sicily

Phoenicians,Greeks, Romans, Arabs,  and more have passed through Sicily. In short feast your eyes on 3000 years of history

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Archeology in Western Sicily

Adranon

  On the top of Mount Adranone, at 1000 meters above sea level, there are ruins of the Siceliota Adranon discovered by the Selinuntines of the 6th century BC, was then destroyed and rebuilt by...

Apollonia

Apollonia On Mount San Fratello (or Mount Vecchio) at 718 meters above sea level, there are ruins that used to be Apollonia, a Sicieliot (or Greek) city destroyed by Agathocles in the 3rd century...

Arab termarium of Cefalà Diana

Arab termarium of Cefalà Diana These spas are one of the few examples left from the Arab period. Beautiful pointed arches embellish this delightful place from the past. The building, with a...

Archeological Palermo

Palermo Archeologica Città meravigliosa, da qualsiasi parte la si guardi. Tracce di mura puniche e romane spuntano da varie parti della città. Di particolare suggestione sono le grotte del monte...

Caltabellotta

Caltabellotta A very ancient city, which is immediately apparent just after entering, where there are 22 tombs and grottoes of prehistoric origin. The necropoli are all over and Caltabellotta is...

Capo Gallo

The Capo Gallo Nature Reserve contains Monte Gallo, originally formed of carbonate in the Mesozoic era (225 million years ago) to the middle Eocene (54 and 33.7 million years ago). The mountain...

Capodarso and Imera river

GPS CAPODARSO: 37°29'40.02"N   14° 8'51.43"E A mountain, a bridge and a source, that is: Etna, the Capodarso bridge and the Aretusa fountain in...

Carburangeli cave

  GPS: 38°10’02.3″N 13°09’40.8″ The cavity is found in the carbonate formations of the Quaternario (about 1,800,000 years ago), carved by the erosion of the sea....

Cave di Cusa

Cave di Cusa  or Rocche di Cusa was an ancient stone quarry in Sicily They are unsurpassed in its state of preservation. The incredible remains enable us to analyze and see every phase of work...

Conca d'Oro and Oreto river

La Conca d’Oro è la pianura (più o meno) sulla quale si adagia Palermo ed alcuni comuni della sua provincia. Avvolta da monti da entrambi i lati ed attraversata al centro dal fiume Oreto il...

Conza cave

  LOCATION 38°11'13.95"N   13°16'45.84" The cave was frequented since the Paleolithic age. In front of the entrance of the cave, in fact, meal remains were...

Disuer necropolis

Necropoli of Disueri The Necropoli of Disueri is a vast area of rock tombs from the Bronze Age (2000 BC). A very important area above the navigable River Gela, in wich there were a series of...

Entella

   37°46'52.01"N   13° 7'28.26"E     A place of a poignant beauty, among the absolute masterpieces of Sicily that in one fell swoop...

Eraclea Minoa

  Overlooking the African sea (the ancient name of this part of Mediterranean sea) here it is the ruins of Eraclea Minoa near the mouth of the river Halycus today called Platani. Another...

Erice

   Erice is a beautiful city that has some of archeological sites of the first order. The city became famous in antiquity because of a temple to Aphrodite, goddess of love: the temple of...

Ganzaria mountain

The Ganzaria mountain is a hill located above the village of San Michele di Ganzaria about 800 meters above sea level, facing part of the southern most part of Mount Erei. It seems that its name...

Gela

    A city of extraordinary importance from the past, and one of the most powerful of the Mediterranean Sea from the 6th century BC. Today its ruins are truly in tatters but over the...

Genovese cave

    We are in a wonderful island that one can visit by walk or bycicle. Here there is a cave that will bring us to the past. To approach it you can walk a path along the coastline: a...

Gibil Gabib

 37°27'10.18"N   14° 4'35.81"E This name, which means “mountain of the dead” brings us quickly back to Arab Sicily, when the Muslims found several...

Gurfa caves

 37°44'55.48"N  13°45'14.08"E Spectacular stone complex from whose date is unknown. There are some who think it is from the Neolithic period (5th millenium BC) who...