The commune of Agency on the south coast of Sicily, carries the title of Capital of Italian culture in 2025 distinction given by the government of Italy to promote tourism and cultural agenda in locations around the country.
Bathed by the Mediterranean, Agrigento began his term in January. The cultural agenda will follow for a year and will be stuffed events which involve exhibitions, theater, music, dance, conferences, workshops, educational activities and programs focused on local heritage and tradition.
Cultural programming is inspired by the four elements of Empedocles Theory, a philosopher who was a citizen of Agrigento in the 5th century the elements are water, earth, fire and air, which would be the basis of everything in the universe and which, according to the thinker, would give existence to all things in the world.
Agrigento continues as the capital of culture after the small commune of Pesaro in eastern Italy, fulfilling the title throughout 2024. Before it, the distinction was honored in 2023 by Bergamo and Brysia, Lombardy, and in 2022 by the island of Procida, Campania.
What to do in Agrigento
Beyond the cultural agenda throughout the month of the year, which can be checked in the Official Site of the CommuneAgrigento has an important historical heritage. Home for more than 50,000 inhabitants, the commune is about 122 km from Palermo and has roots at the time when the Greeks colonized southern Italy, forming the Greece Magna.
Founded around 581 BC, history tells that Agrigento developed as one of the most important cities in the Mediterranean. Today, visitors can appreciate the remains of the doric temples in the Temple valley which form an archaeological site declared as UNESCO World Heritage .
The area houses a series of well -preserved buildings, such as the Concordia temple, the Hercules Temple and the Olympic Zeus Temple. There are also necropolis, tombs and ruins in the surroundings. In the valley there is also the GARDINO DELLA KOLYMBETRA which served as an irrigation system and became a garden with citrus, olive and almond plants, housing archaeological traces.
The historic center of the commune is worth the walk, being the Via attention The main street. Cafes, restaurants and ice cream shops share space with old palaces and charming alleys. There is also Viale Della Vittoria, with a view to the Valley of Temples and the Sea.
A series of churches form the local identity and can be visited, such as the Agrigento Cathedral founded in the 11th century in Norman-Gothic style. THE Chiesa di Santa Maria Dei Greci It is a small 12th century church whose foundations are on the basis of a 5 -century temple Monastero di Santo Spirito It is a complex dating from 1260 composed of a church and a cisteric monastery.
Overlooking the sea, the 18th century house where the Nobel Prize winner was born Luigi Pirandello It is today a museum that houses a collection of photographs, reviews, books and paintings, as well as exhibitions about the playwright.
How to get to Agrigento
There are daily trains and buses that come from Palermo to Agrigento. The trains take about 2 hours and are operated by Trenitalia, with passages on average for 12 euros, about $ 74.
By bus, the route takes about 2h30 and costs from an average of 8 euros, about $ 50.
In the surrounding area of ​​Agrigento, another recommended tour is the Scala Dei Turchi area known by white cliffs by the Mediterranean Sea in the shape of a ladder. It is between the city of Realmonte and Porto Empradocle, about 20 minutes by Aggrego’s drive.
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