 Racalmuto agricultural country place at thirty miles from Agrigento, developed as a village around the Chiaramonte Castle in the period of the Norman conquest. The construction of the fortress dates from the time of the barony of Robert Malcovenant, a Frenchman in the wake of King Roger of Hauteville. Then Frederick of Aragon (1272-1337) transferred the ownership of the castle and surrounding estate to Frederick II Chiaramonte. The new lords of Racalmuto refounded the beginning of '300, the modest house that they built Malcovenant, making impressive. The castle stands in the east of the town and spread over a polygonal structure of the compact mass. The prospectus of the fortress, located on the floor so-called castle, a terrace of solid rock, and wall thickness of about two meters high and closed by two colossal towers, accompanied by two rows of twelve windows. The south side is home to the ground floor doors to arches, a line of the first floor balcony and several windows scattered out of order on the facade. The left tower is preserved in its original form while the right has been rebuilt to belvedere.Il castle, the trapezoidal shape, for typical windows, the towers with a circular base for the provision of the portal and secondary entrances, is certainly a feature of military construction of the Swabian period. At the beginning of the twentieth century the castle was declared a national monument.
| | |  One of the most representative archaeological sites of classical Greek civilization, introduced in 1998 by UNESCO World Heritage List. A rocky ridge that bounds the south the plateau on which stood the village classic, yet reveal the remains of Doric temples, of uncertain attribution: from east to west with an altitude of 127 to share 70, Hera (Juno) Lacinia, Concordia Heracles (Hercules) Zeus (Jupiter) Olympic, Castor and Pollux (Dioscuri) and Hephaistos (Vulcan). Lower down the plain of San Gregorio Akragas crossed by the river, whose mouth was emporion the port and the ancient city. Near the river, the temple dedicated to the god of medicine, Asclepius. The ancient Akragas in the fifth century BC, was a thriving cultural homeland of the pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles, frequented by Pindar and Simonides. In Roman times, the city is visited by Cicero in search of evidence of greed and mismanagement of the pro-console will be described by Virgil in the Aeneid. From the Middle Ages to the present day, the ruins, landscapes, vegetation, colors, and the echoes of lost civilizations have inspired philosophers, writers, poets and painters: Ludovico Ariosto, Goethe, Maupassant, Alexandre Dumas, Anatole France Mendes Murilo, Lawrence Durrell, Francis Lojacono, Nicolas de Staël, Salvatore Quasimodo, Luigi Pirandello.Copyright ©2002- 2008 Sicily TravelNet | | |  La Scala dei Turchi (Réalmont) is a pleasant cliff of marl, a fine-grained sedimentary rock formed from limestone and clay from the characteristic white color, on which the wind and rain have carved a natural staircase. The show is unique, the white rocks made stronger the sunlight is introduced among the blue sky and blue sea: a true paradise. The water below is a unique transparency and welcome in the summer, many swimmers and sunbathers. According to legend pirates Saracen, after their vessels moored in sheltered waters from La Scala, climbed among the ravines and creeks reaching the top of the cliff. Then razziarano goods of all kinds from the villages of luogo.È unlikely that the Turks had come this far, but the popular image has prevailed. Scala dei Turchi is also linked to another legend about two hundred yards from the shore outcrop rocks, "Zitu u" and "zita", recalling the story of two young lovers of the place. | | |  Siculiana between Marina and Eraclea Minoa stretches unspoilt coastline, the Natural Reserve of Torre Salsa, where the chalk cliffs alternate with calcareous Globigerina marl, sometimes covered by layers of clay. The shrubby and herbaceous vegetation that covers the environment, sometimes rough, sometimes gives access to the beach by narrow paths between rocks. The sea is crystal clear, the lush grounds of the rich flora and fauna. La Torre Salsa, ancient tower, located in the heart of this oasis and dominates the top of a small ridge of clay which shows where the process of erosion is more intense, the white limestone marl. A jagged rocky plateau overlooking the sea creates a myriad of paths, where fish dart between fast and slow crustacean algae find refuge. The impenetrable nature of the sites preserved from this oasis subdivisions and projects, the variety and beauty of its environments, the importance of flora and fauna among the most interesting areas of Sicily, deserving the utmost protection. The territory of the Reserve of Torre Salsa, extended to 761.62 hectares falls within the province of Agrigento in the Municipality of Siculiana.
Its coastline stretches along the coast for about 6 km where you can see the alternation of more or less steep cliffs, secluded beaches and huge dunes and destination, in summer, the lovers balneazione.A close to the cliff there are ledges where he developed the agricultural landscape. These terraces, well-shaped, indented by several streams branched and very deep, as the stream and the stream Cannicella Hermit, which empties into the sea by building beautiful scenic views. Around these terraces, on one side and the sea cliffs and other inaccessible and mountainous landscape more, culminating in the peaks of Monte Stella (148.40 mt) with a slope overlooking the sea, Mount Dome ( mt. 170) on top of which you see signs of the quarries of inert materials now abandoned for years and Monte Hermit (162.50 mt).
Hermit between upstream and the promontory of Salsa where stands the ruins of Torre Salsa, one sees a large depression characterized by the presence of the stream Salso called "Muddy." The area around it is subject to natural flooding, which makes, especially in winter, inaccessible. In summer the swamp dries out and through a dirt road that runs along the beach you can reach them. In this area there are many farmlands, a reforestation area equipped with picnic and, in the promontory of Salsa, a large reforestation coming up the dunes and hedges bordering arable cropland. |
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