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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...

Antiquarium of Himera

Inside the archaeological park of the homonymous and very famous colony siceliota (destroyed in 408 BC by the Carthaginians) is this very rich museum. There are preserved the most remarkable finds...

Antiquarium of San Giuseppe Jato

The antiquarium, a building dating back to the end of the 19th century, exhibits some of the most prestigious and representative finds from the excavations of Mount Jato, were stood the ancient town...

Antiquarium of Solunto

Within the ancient Punic-Roman city of the same name, this antiquarium preserves the finds. Statues, capitals, architectural fragments, coins, tools, testify to the evolution of a civilization,...

Antonino Salinas Archaeological Museum

  Il museo è ospitato in questo pregevole edificio cinquecentesco ex Casa dei Padri della congregazione di San Filippo Neri. A seguito delle legge sulla soppressione degli ordini religiosi...

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...

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...

Caporama

          Site of great beauty. The headland, where the ruins of a 15th century tower emerges consist of calcareous Mesozoic age dating about 200 millions years ago,...

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....

Castle-museum Beccadelli Bologna

Inside this beautiful, sixteenth-century castle is the Beccadelli museum which preserves archaeological finds from the area and above all from the various settlements distributed along the course of...

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...

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...

Entella cave

In a landscape with a very high bucolic profile, one of the most excellent in Sicily, here is this particularly suggestive karst cave, right under the plateau of Entella, seat of the ancient city of...

Favara and Granza forest

A real paradise where they grow undisturbed oaks, oaks and oaks and, above all, suggestive secular cork trees among which those of Bosco Granza. The outer areas of the reserve are characterized by the...

Ficuzza - Rocca Busambra

It is an extremely beautiful place, where art and nature integrate perfectly. The area was born as a hunting reserve for Ferdinand III of Bourbon, in the nineteenth century, and presents a great...

Gemmellaro Geological museum

  Museo bellissimo, affascinante, emozionante ! E’ ospitato nelle sale universitario della facoltà di Scienze della Terra di Palermo. Andiamo a passeggiarlo tra animali di 250 milioni di anni...

Gibilmanna Religious museum

Tra le catacombe e l’omonimo santuario di probabile origine bizantina (VI secolo !), in un paesaggio fiabesco (i boschi delle Madonie), ecco il museo di Gibilmanna (dall’arabo “Gibel el...

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...

Halaesa

Alesa (Halaesa) Arconidea is an archeological city that stands between Tusa and Tusa Marina. Founded in 403 BC, it is still the subject of archeological excavations. At Halaesa, there were two...