Villarosa · Historic palace
S. Anna Le Stanzie
In the countryside of Villarosa, along an old royal drovers' road (Trazzera), stands a seventeenth-century aristocratic palace whose forms seem entirely at odds with its rural setting.
📍 Museum
Treno Museo
Villarosa
Created within the railway station of Villarosa Scalo thanks to the vision and tireless work of the stationmaster David Primo, the Museum is housed inside now-disused carriages.
Created within the railway station of Villarosa Scalo thanks to the vision and tireless work of the stationmaster David Primo, the Museum is housed inside now-disused carriages. In them you will find not only a well-organised collection on the history of the railway in Italy, but also a series of goods wagons transformed into museum rooms, each devoted to an aspect of the anthropology of Central Sicily.
Getting there
SS 121, Villarosa. Reached by following the SS 121 between Enna and Villarosa or by train along the Palermo-Catania line. Accessible by bicycle, by car/motorcycle and by taxi/shuttle.
Access & visits
Contact the 'Amici del Treno' association through the guide. Suitable for families with children, ideal in bad weather and for people with disabilities; a guide is required.
Where it is
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Villarosa · Rural village
Villapriolo
A rural hamlet, a district of Villarosa, where the tireless work of the Amici del Treno Museo association has created a kind of open-air museum, recreating the everyday living spaces of the rural world of the Sicilian interior.
Calascibetta · Archaeological site
Via annonaria Calascibetta Cacchiamo
The ancient road described by Cicero allowed grain supplies to be transported from Henna to Halaesa on the Tyrrhenian coast.