SIGHTSEEING

Palazzolo Acreide is a place that surprises visitors since his arrival, making it soak in the wonderful story which is leading to more than three thousand years. A hit of Palazzolo Acreide are the variety of historical layers, as shown by the monuments of outstanding artistic and architectural.

There are several routes to follow but surely the dual nature of Palazzolo Acreide is in being a Baroque center UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2002 and an archaeological site of immense interest. Starting from the baroque, are definitely worth visiting the two buildings and a World Heritage Site, that is, the churches of St. Paul and St. Sebastian, the triumph of the late Baroque and collegiate ibleo of greatest importance that organize the most important festivals of the city together with that St. Michael, venerated in the church. To remember among the many church buildings also the Cathedral Church of St. Nicholas, the Church of the Annunciation with the façade characterized by four magnificent spiral columns and the Church of the Immaculate: it holds within it a statue of the Madonna and Child famous Dalmatian sculptor Francesco Laurana, dating from the fifteenth century. The itinerary Baroque can not avoid, finally, from admiring the famous balcony of Palazzo Judica-Cafici, which boasts of

be the world's longest baroque balcony.

Before leaving the town in the direction of the ancient city, one can not make a stop at the imposing ruins of the medieval castle of the Arab era-Norman-Swabian and various museums such as the Museum of Traditions Noble site Palazzo Spadaro Rizzarelli-or even the Museum of Travellers in Sicily until you get to the two most important: the House-Museum of Antonino Uccello, the famous etnoantropologo Palazzolo, and the Archaeological Museum of Palazzo Chaplains. The latter is the link with the archaeological area, the site of Akrai. There are many examples to us remained, surely among all the Greek Theatre dating from the third century. B.C. and connected bouleuterion, the city parliament, as most important in Sicily. Worthy of mention in the archaeological zone selinuntina am the way, part of the ancient Roman road axis and the quarries and Intagliata dell'Intagliatella, rich in early Christian and Byzantine tombs including the cave of the horses and the Senebardo. The tombs were now houses, tombs and here now fascinated by the variety of burials: canopy, to arcosolia polysomes artistic and simple. Finally, to remember a bas-relief of the first century. B.C. with sacrificial scenes and convivial.

Pearl Palazzolo Acreide are, finally, the so-called Santoni, rock sanctuary consists of twelve figures carved into the rock and unique testimony to the greatness and completeness, dedicated to the worship of the Magna Mater and considered the main center of the cult of Cybele in Sicily . The dating of the complex is between the end of the fourth and third centuries. B.C.