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Ribera - Borgo Bonsignore
(Agrigento
province)
We are in Borgo Bonsignore a
little coastal suburb of Ribera in the Agrigento's province. In the area there is the natural reserve "Foce del fiume
Platani" with its WWF area next to 4 km of sandy beaches. These
wonders of nature compose the superb view of
Oasi del Borgo villa resort.
The village center is Bonsignore square, with bar, pizzeria, tabacs, restaurant,
a little food market and
the Saint Pietro church. The area is very calm and only during the summer
months many of the near by villas are populated. It's perfect for people who are looking for relaxing
accommodations, not noisy and with wonderfull seaview. Borgo Bonsignore
is a seaside and a rural village as well. The main Ribera rural activity
is the orange cultivation.
R.N.O. "Foce del fiume Platani"
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Distances
Facilities:
walking distance (restaurant, food-market, bar, tabacchi, pizzerie) during
the summer.
Beach:
700 m
Bonsignore
square: 500 m
Natural reserve and beaches:
1 km
SS115:
2 km
Eraclea
Minoa: 6 km
Sciacca:
20 km
Agrigento:
40 km
Palermo: 110 km
Catania: 190 km
Sicilian cities near by
Ribera - Seccagrande
3
minutes by car and you can reach Seccagrande. It's a pleasant mariner village, placed in a natural happy
position on the waters of Canale di Sicilia. It is a place of bathing tourism
and summer holidays. In its coast there are two most important areas: Corvo and "lungomare Gagarin" (sea picture on the left)
in which you can relax and taste different kinds of
handicraft ice cream.
Sciacca
The city of the thermal bath
Just
15 minutes by car and you arrive in Sciacca. It places 60 m on the sea which
laps on its port. To the feet of the Monte Kronio. Here is great the
variety of shores: San Marco, the stazzone, Renella and to east, the Sovareto
beach and the coves of San Giorgio, Timpi Russi and Macauda. Known by the
Romans for the properties of its waters and for its happy position, the city
was a natural cross road of various dominations and cultures. The Carnival,
one of the most beautiful of the Sicily, is the most important city manifestation.
Toward Agrigento, on the left there is the Enchanted Garden or Castle
of Filippo Bentivegna, a paesant artist disappeared in the 1967. In a small
wooded little farm, he sculpted hundreds of stupendous mask and in the barks
of the trees, generating a motion of uneasy amazement.
Important to see:
The San Calogero's
cave and the sanctuary, the pinewood and the Antiquarium, with some prihistoric
materials.
Agrigento
The city of the Temples Valley
Proceding toward
Agrigento, we reach the mythical Valley of the Temples, one of the
main archaeological areas of the mediterranean. On ample valley, sloaping
down towards the sea, the magnifecent rests of the Temples of the city
that Pindaro sang as "the most beautiful of the mortal men",
rise up. At the margin of the Valley there are the Regional
Archaeological Museum, the Oratory of Falaride and the Ellenistic-Roman
Quarter. In february the Valley, bleached by the almond tree blooms,
and the city streets embellish the "Almond Blossom Festival".
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