"I pray you, O wonderful, most beautiful city of mortals"
Pindaro
Pindar, ancient greek poet Agrigento is founded around the 580 a.C. is a very crossway of people and civilization around the centuries that live in the footstep of their passage and get rich this area of Sicily of wanderlul monuments and culture. In 1997 the Valle of Temples is declared one of the unesco heritage with its 1300 hectare the archeoligal park of Agrigento in the must big all over the world. But Agrigento is not just the Valle of Temples, that of course rest the main place that you can visit, the historical center is a maze of narrow streets which resemble an Arab Medina. Except that the center will not find mosques, but beautiful churches in Sicilian Baroque style and on top of the cathedral. It’s wonderful to see the town, and get lost in the courtyards and squares coming into contact with the inner essence of the city. In the province of Agrigento, in Realmonte, there is a place that can just leave you astonished: the scale of the Turks, a cliff, so called because of its structure with steps, made of a white rock, marl, which will leave your hands "whitewashed", but It will give you a unique view. It is one of the two "spikes" of the Gulf of Agrigento and the landscape is very amazing.
