Tourist attractions Gioiosa Marea

The villa dates from the 1C AD and is made up of living quarter and a small spa installation. The house itself runs around a square peristyle . The tablinium still encloses a pavement of black and white mosaics. The spas are in a semi-circular bas..

Visitors will see remains of the impressive perimeter walls built under Dionysius the Elder. The Roman settlement contains thermal spas, taverns and a rich patrician house decorated with mosaics. The basilica is an attractive arcaded building w..

In this church, built in the second half of the 17C, the first elections took place after the unification of Italy. There are attractive Byzantine style frescoes which were found in the abbey church.

This church was rebuilt in 1635 but has preserved its 16C campanile. It has very attractive woodcarvings, a coffered ceiling, Byzantine-Norman style rose windows, a stunning main altar decorated with floral paintings and medallions depicting the myst..

At the high point of the village, this 10C tower used to form part of a lookout system that, coming from the tour delle Ciavole on the coast, used to communicate with the Guardiola , to the north of Piràino, and finish here. From the tower's terra..

This church dates from the 16C but was remodelled a century later. It has a wooden altar decorated with floral motifs and an attractive pilaster adorned with a bas-relief showing the triumph of St Catherine over the infidel.

Patti was built to the level of a Bishop's palace by King Roger in 1131, then to the level of a Royal city in 1312 by Frederick III of Aragon, and it finally received the tile of "Magnanimous" from Charles V. Around the medieval streets and..

This luxurious villa was discovered during construction work for the motorway. Visitors can make out a portico with columns and a peristyle onto which open several rooms which have preserved some very attractive mosaics.

Excavations have unearthed the frigidarium , the tepidarium and the caldarium and even the suspensorae which helped heat the thermal rooms of an ancient Roman villa, near San Gregorio, the East suburb of the Orlando cape.

This small church was built in the 17C at the end of a promontory of the Orlando Cape, over the ruins of the Castle of Orlando. The panoramic site here is admirable.

The sea forms these small lagoons along the broad sandy strip at the foot of Cape Tindari. There is a rich variety of aquatic flora here, as well as interesting bird life. It is accessed via the beach, which fringes a very attractive bay of cryst..

This late-19C villa is now a museum-foundation dedicated to the most famous members of the Piccolo family: Lucio, the poet; Casimiro, a painter and photographer; and their cousin Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , who wrote a large part of his masterpie..

Built in 1515 and dedicated to St Saviour, this chiesa madre contrasts a stern exterior with attractive internal architectural features. Flagstone columns holding up broken arches separate three naves. Notice the capitals , typically medieval, decor..

This museum has all kinds of objects illustrating popular religious culture. Amulets against the evil eye, ex-votos, "pills" (having these small squares of paper during prayer protected against some sicknesses), song sheets for travelling m..

This church was established in the 11C by Roger I over the ruins of a small 5C church. Besides the conventual elements, you will the notice the three Arab-Norman style apses and the octagonal tambour which stands at the tambour crossing. The inside i..

The church belonged to a Benedictine Monastery which is in ruins today. Notice the elegant doorway in local marble decorated with columns, angels and cherubs. The interior has rich decoration in stucco made up of cloth and cherubs.