Archeolodida

Kalat summer camps

Included escursions

Sites of extraordinary importance, located in the surroundings of Campobello di Licata

La Valle dei Templi di Agrigento, "The Temples Valley of Agrigento"

An archaeological site of the Great Greece period (Magna Grecia), located in the surroundings of Agrigento, in Sicily, and included in the UNESCO's World Heritage List since 1997.

It is characterized by the remainders of seven temples built in the doric style: their denomination and relative identification, apart from the Olympeion, are thought to be pure humanist speculations, yet they remained of common use.

- The Temple of Juno, dedicated to the homonymus greek goddess, has been built in the Vth century B.C. and burnt by the carthaginians. It was the temple in which usually were celebrated the weddings.

- The Temple of Concord, which name comes from a latin inscription found near the temple, also build in the Vth century B.C. Without any doubts, it's currently the best conserved. It's been transformed in a church in the VIth century A.C.

- The Temple of Heracles, the oldest one, was dedicated to the veneration of the god Heralcles (or Hercules), one of the most respected by the inhabitants of the antic Akragas. Distroyed by an earthquake, it's only composed now of eight columns.

- The Temple of Zeus Olympios (Jupiter), built in order to honour the homonymus god after the 480 B.C. victory on the carthaginians, is characterized by the presence of the telamons, statues of huge dimensions and human appearance.

- The Temple of the Dioskouroi (or Castor and Pollux) has been built to honour the twins, sons of Leda and Zeus. Only four columns remain today. It's the symbol of the city of Agrigento.

- The Temple of Vulcan, also from the Vth century B.C., is thought to be one of the most important constructions of the Valley, yet it's one of the most damaged by time and natural phenomenons. 

- The Temple of Asclepius, built far from the city walls, was a place of pilgrimage for ill people looking for recovery.

The "valle dei Templi" also hosts the tomb of Terone, a tuf monument of huge dimensions and pyramidal shape, that is thought to have been erected in order to remember the deads of the second punic war.

Museum and archaeological area of Monte Saraceno in Ravanusa

On the "Monte Saraceno" has been individualized an indigenous proto-historical center that has been the subject, during the centuries, of geloan hellenisation first, and then of the agrigentine one.

The city was built on three terraces, of which the upper one received the acropoli. The excavations made in the 50's brought to light, in the upper part of the city, three religious buildings.

On the central terrace stand the remains of two habitations laid upon the regular urbanistic plan: the first one dates back to the hellenisation of Gela in the VIIth century B.C., the second one to the agrigentine one, in the VIth century B.C.

On the lower terrace takes place a further habitat which period is included between the the second half of the VIth century B.C. and the first half of the Vth B.C.

On this last site, a sacred edifice has been found, accompanied by fictile materials relative to the worship of Demeter.

The city was surrounded with a fortification wall from which is visible the breve oriental strip that receives small sight towers added at the end of the IVth century B.C.

In the southern and western part of the "Monte Saraceno" were located the necropoli of the Vth-IVth century B.C.

A large part of the numerous findings are today preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Ravanusa.

The baroque city of Naro

Little city probably of greek origins, it suffered, like the surrounding territories, the domination of the Greeks, Romans, Arabs, and Normans, period in which the cathedral was built. It becomes royal city under Federico II di Svevia, and during the XVIIth century, it gets the right to administer justice. As it is very rich during the 600-700, a lost of monuments are built, as well as a lot of baroque churches that still constitute today its predominant aspect, even if they unfortunatly are in a bad state of conservation.

The city is overlooked by the mass of the chiaramontan castle, tuff construction with an irregular shape, only enriched, on one of its sides, by the squared tower, two blind windows and a beautiful entrance portal.

Itinerary in Campobello di Licata and surroundings:

Parco Antico di Iachinu Filì, "Iachinu Filì ancient park"

The district of "Iachinu Filì" is one of the more characteristical agricol areas in Campobello di Licata's territory.

During the recent archaeological researches, numerous Bronze Age sites have been individualised, and especially an evocative necropoli, with numerous tombs "a grotticella" ("little grotto"), of which some have been reused during the byzantine period. The area is inserted in a context of small and typical rural constructions, and traditional cultures.

The valorisation of the area, to which tens of italians and foreign volunteers have collaborated, has been realized using local, natural and reversible materials.

The initiative contributes to the valorisation of cultural and typical aspects of the territory and is proposed to those who are interested in a sustainable and cultural tourism.

Permanent exhibition about archaeological research activity in Campobello di Licata

The exhibition offers to the visitor the patrimony of experiences and data gathered with the activities of the Kalat project, through an interactive visit, and the opening of a laboratory of ludico-didactic activities about archaeology.

Tour of Campobello di Licata

Campobello di Licata have assumed in years the aspect of "Città d'Arte" ("City of Arts"), for its numerous operas by the artists Silvio Benedetto , Olga Macaluso and Silvia di Blasi, who experimented the realisation of squares, green spaces, fountains, sculptures, ceramics and murals.