Overview of farmland seen from town of Enna, located in central Sicily.

Andrew Montgomery

Central Sicily

Sicily's wild and empty interior is a beautiful, uncompromising land; a timeless landscape of silent, sunburnt peaks, grey stone villages and forgotten valleys. Traditions live on and life is lived at a gentle, rural pace. It's an area that encourages simple pleasures – long lunches of earthy country food, meanders through hilltop towns, quiet contemplation over undulating vistas. It’s also an area of surprising natural diversity – one minute you’re driving through rolling hills reminiscent of Tuscany, the next through pockets of eucalypt bush akin to Australia.

Attractions

Must-see attractions

  • Piazza Armerina, Enna, Sicily

    Villa Romana del Casale

    Central Sicily

    Villa Romana del Casale is sumptuous, even by decadent Roman standards, and is thought to have been the country retreat of Marcus Aurelius Maximianus,…

  • Scalinata di Santa Maria del Monte

    Scalinata di Santa Maria del Monte

    Central Sicily

    Caltagirone's most evocative sight is this monumental staircase, which rises from Piazza Municipio to Chiesa di Santa Maria del Monte. Built in the early…

  • Triclinium

    Triclinium

    Central Sicily

    One of a series of apartments on one side of the Ambulacro, the triclinium boasts a splendid floor illustration of the labours of Hercules, where the…

  • Panoramic view of the Greek archaeological site of Morgantina, in the interior of Sicily in Italy. 1479010493 carthaginian, tour tourism

    Morgantina

    Central Sicily

    A 16km drive northeast of Piazza Armerina (and a 4km downhill drive from the town of Aidone) lie the noteworthy remains of Morgantina, an ancient Greek…

  • Little Hunt

    Little Hunt

    Central Sicily

    Of the rooms on the northern side of the peristyle, the most interesting is a dining room featuring a hunting mosaic called the Little Hunt – 'little'…

  • Sala delle Dieci Ragazze

    Sala delle Dieci Ragazze

    Central Sicily

    Just off the southern end of the Ambulacro della Grande Caccia, in the Sala delle Dieci Ragazze, is the villa's most famous mosaic. It depicts nine …

  • Peristyle

    Peristyle

    Central Sicily

    The main part of the villa is centred on the peristyle, a vast covered courtyard lined with amusing animal heads. This is where guests would have been…

  • Palaestra

    Palaestra

    Central Sicily

    The palaestra wows with a splendid, sweeping mosaic depicting a chariot race at the Circus Maximus in Rome (the room is also known as the Salone del Circo…

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