BURGIO
Burgio,
some 3,500 inhabitants, belongs to the Agrigento province. The city
boasts well developed commercial businesses, notably the only foundry
existing in Sicily, important for the production of bells and ceramics.
Agriculture is as much important.
Burgio
is a city of historical interest, with a castle of Arabian origin
that was conquested and restructured by the Normans. In the following
centuries the castle was owned by several aristocratic families,
among which the Peraltas, until it was acquired by the town municipality.
Today, it is reduced to very miserable conditions.
The
Mother Church, dedicated to S. Antonio Abate, Burgio’s patron
saint, is worth-seeing. Likely dating from the 12th century and
later refurbished, it is notably renowned for housing a fine Chapel
dedicated to the Madonna of Trapani. It contains some precious works
of art, like a 1600’s statue representing the Virgin Mary
and Child by Vincenzo Gagini. Also worth-mentioning are the Church
of San Giuseppe, with frescoes and precious decorations, the Church
of San Vito, dating from the 1500s and, in the city surroundings,
the Santuario di Rifesi, dedicated to Saint Mary, adjacent to a
monastery.
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AGRIGENTO
Alessandria Della Rocca
Aragona
Bivona
Burgio
Calamonaci
Caltabellotta
Camastra
Cammarata
Campobello Di Licata
Canicattì
Casteltermini
Castrofilippo
Cattolica Eraclea
Cianciana
Comitini
Favara
Grotte
Joppolo Giancaxio
Lampedusa
Licata
Linosa
Lucca Sicula
Menfi
Montallegro
Montevago
Naro
Palma di Montechiaro
Porto Empedocle
Raffadali
Racalmuto
Ravanusa
Realmonte
Ribera
Sambuca Di Sicilia
San Biagio Platani
San Giovanni Gemini
Sant'angelo Muxaro
S. Margherita di Belice
Santa Elisabetta
S. Stefano di Quisquina
Sciacca
Siculiana
Villafranca Sicula
Isole
Pelagie
Lampedusa
Linosa
Lampione
Capobianco
Eraclea Minoa
Valle Dei Templi
Monte Kronio
Casa Natale Luigi Pirandello
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