Art and culture
Art and culture
Our top 10
1.
Borgo Cascino
A rural village created during the Fascist period, it is very well preserved. Several families still live there, and there is a structure with a restaurant, bed and breakfast, and agricamping. The Borgo was dedicated to General Cascino, a native of Piazza Armerina and considered a hero of the First World War.
2.
Caseificio Raja
The Cottonaro cereal zootechnical farm is an important part of the Enna area, passed down from father to son to Oriana, Paolo, and Elisa. The products are all locally sourced, from the stables to the processing room, with standards of cleanliness and quality, attention to detail, and lots of love. Each cheese has been cultivated thanks to regular customers, their advice, tastes, and needs. From the most delicate to the tastiest, from the richest to the lightest. At the Raja dairy, they have only one motto: with love from the producer to the consumer.
3.
Castel di Gresti
In the cereal-growing countryside of what was once the Agro Murgantino, a long rocky ridge rises up, cutting the course of a stream almost like a dam. We are in Pietratagliata or Castel di Gresti. This ridge, made up of Numidian quartzarenites and characterized by a vast sequence of ichnofossils and ripplemarks, stands the remains of a medieval castled settlement with a robust tower that is still almost intact, various parts of a palatial complex, and rooms excavated in the heart of the rocky bank. Gresti is famous for its spectacular nature and has also been a location for films and music videos.
4.
D'Angelo - Oro Rosso
The D'Angelo Brothers' farm is part of the Oro Rosso Cooperative of Sicily: they produce and harvest the three red threads arranged inside the saffron flower and obtain this precious spice. But not only that! Through their historic family cheese factory, you will feel the love they put into cheese making, processing cheese and tasting the products of milk and saffron. All in a natural context where the needs of man and those of animals are deeply respected.
5.
La Bottega del Restauro
The Bottega del Restauro, founded by Angelo Scalzo near the ancient district of Enna, is the result of an experience developed through practices in various laboratories, which has enriched and improved the owner's learning skills. The main objective of the laboratory is to transmit the expertise necessary for a correct understanding of all phases of the restoration. All restorations are carried out in compliance with the principles of conservation, with the aim of making the objects legible again and re-establishing their use.
6.
Lago Pergusa
One of the best-known nature reserves in Italy, the lake is also a biotope of Italy. Easily visited via the Riva dei Giunchi path, the natural basin is endorheic and is characterized by being fed exclusively by the waters of a small portion of the territory set between the two large river basins of the Simeto and the Imera. It is a very important station for wild avifauna, and is also a place of great interest for sports in the natural environment. At the entrance, the Geopark, in agreement with Legambiente, manages the Visitor Center.
7.
Laura Basiliana di Santa Lena
In the district of the same name, which has now become the outskirts of Leonforte, the cave, referred to in Greek as Santa Léna, is all that remains of a complex initially excavated in the calcarenite and used as a granary silo or cubiculum. It was then transformed into a rock church, decorated with a complex cycle of frescoes that can still be seen on the walls today.
8.
Parco Floristella
The Regional Mineral Park extends over a large area that was affected by fervent mining activity during the 19th and 20th centuries. Here, first the Pennisi family, the last owners of the Baronia of the same name, and then the region with its appropriate entities, managed several mining structures whose remains are now a real outdoor museum of the Sicilian mining civilization. The jewel of this area is the magnificent Palazzo Pennisi. The Rio Floristella is also very interesting, with its highly mineralized, pearly white waters.
9.
S. Anna Le Stanzie
In the countryside of Villarosa, along an ancient Trazzera, stands a seventeenth-century aristocratic palace whose forms seem completely antithetical to its rural position. The palace, known as Palazzo Ducale di S. Anna alle Stanzie, is what remains of an unsuccessful attempt at feudal foundation. Private, the building is used as a farmhouse and can be partially visited by asking the current owners. In the appurtenances, there is the ruined chapel of Sant'Anna and some vast underground rooms that can probably be interpreted as large grain silos.
10.
Villaggio Bizantino
This rupestrian archaeological area consists of various residential nuclei entirely dug out of the rock, and used from the Bronze Age up to the last century. It opens onto the limestone walls of the Canalotto valley and takes advantage of a perennial source of fresh water. The distribution of the underground rooms on multiple levels is spectacular.