Assoro · Landscape & nature
Piano di Murra
East of Assoro, along the provincial road that leads from the town to the hamlet of San Giorgio, the Piano di Murra is a landscape feature of great value.
📍 Rock-cut site
Laura Basiliana di Santa Lena
Leonforte
In the district of the same name, now part of the outskirts of Leonforte, the cave known in Greek as Santa Léna is what remains of a complex originally hewn into the calcarenite and used as a grain silo or cubiculum, later transformed into a small rock-cut church decorated with a complex cycle of frescoes still faintly visible on its walls today.
In the district of the same name, now part of the outskirts of Leonforte, the cave known in Greek as Santa Léna is what remains of a complex originally hewn into the calcarenite and used as a grain silo or cubiculum, later transformed into a small rock-cut church decorated with a complex cycle of frescoes still faintly visible on its walls today.
Getting there
SS 121, Leonforte. Reached from the SS 121 at the Branciforti roundabout on the outskirts of Leonforte. Accessible by bicycle and by car/motorcycle.
Access & visits
Contact the Municipality of Leonforte, as the site is open only on request. Suitable for families with children; a guide is required.
Where it is
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