Central Sicily boasts an important natural and mining heritage. With this itinerary we will help you discover the area’s unspoiled nature and industrial archaeology, demonstrating the richness of this territory that led to a two-hundred years history of sulphur mining since the eighteenth century.
Translated from the original Italian by Agnese Tomasella, MLitt in Museum Studies and Museum consultant for Rete Museale Culturale e Ambientale del Centro Sicilia (The Central Sicily Museums, Culture and Nature Network)
This audio guide is part of the project Sicilia Beni Culturali for izi.TRAVEL coordinated by Elisa Bonacini, University of Catania
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Sites
| Name | Since | Distance | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9. Holy Week Places: “Devotion and tradition” en it | 0.5km | site_izi | |||
| 1. Ethno-anthropological Itinerary “Land and wheat” en it | 0km | site_izi | |||
| 7. Literary Itinerary: “Little Athens and its literary places” en it | 0.5km | site_izi | |||
| 5. Culinary Itinerary “The Land and its tastes” en it | 0.4km | site_izi | |||
| 2. Artistic and Historical Itinerary: “Nobles and Courts of Caltanissetta and Sommatino” en it | 0.5km | site_izi | |||
| Medieval Itinerary: “Churches in Caltanissetta’s Countryside” en it | 2.2km | site_izi | |||
| 3. Mining itinerary: “Ciaula discovers the Moon” en it | 1.2km | site_izi | |||
| Caltanissetta: General Itinerary en it | 0.7km | site_izi | |||
| 4. Archaeological Itinerary: “Indigenous settlements” en it | 2.3km | site_izi | |||
| Caltanissetta Radio Transmitter | 2020 | 1.1km | site_ao |
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