"Treat yourself to a holiday with history and sea"
"Eraclea Minoa Village"
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Eraclea: the history
Phillip III, king of Spain, May 24 th 1610 granted to the baron of Siculiana Mr. Blasco lsfar et Corillas the license of popular "barony of Platans seu Monforti", that is one of those earths that extended him near the left shore of the river Platans, that already from half century they belonged to the Isfars. But the true founder of the city of Catholic was the first-born of the baron Blasco, the young Francisco. These it favored the installation of a lot of families that you/they originated from the nearest centers and particularly from Sant'Angelo Muxaro, Montallegro, Villafranca, Raffadali, Calamonaci, Burgio, Caltabellotta and also Siculiana. A small center lived already existed on the same territory in which Catholic was founded. Perhaps it was few more than a village, that had the name of Ingastone and that it disappears with the foundation of Catholic. For the choice of the name of the new country, the Isfars did a real "suggestion of family", during which prevailed the idea to recall himself/herself/themselves the ancient name of the Platans, that was Licus, that means salty. So that the union of Cata, that means near and Licus rose the Catholic denomination. The term Eraclea has been assistant in last century. Francisco died very young, but it had the time to be invested some title of duke of Catholic, in the year 1612. But with him the masculine branch of the ancient one and noble it was also extinguished family of the lsfars, and Catholic's princess his/her sister Giovanna was named, that had gone in bride to the duke of Misilmeri Vincenzo Of the Wood. In these years he/she saw the light the first church of the country, that of the Purgatory, that was enriched soon of works of art and of you appreciate cloths, among which that of the martyrdom of Saint Stephen, of Pietro Novelli. The princess Giovanna founded the Convent of the Payment. It is in the following century other sacred buildings they rose. In 1700, the dominion of Catholic passed Bonanno to the family. Today Catholic is a modest center that you/he/she has seen many gods own citizens forced to the emigration because of the difficult economic conditions.
Eraclea: Art
Ancient
colony selinuntina of the You century a.C. built on top of the splendid
promontory, expanse on the hill near White Head to the left of the mouth
of the river Platans. The excavations effected to the beginning of last
century have brought important archaeological testimonies to the light
from the You to the The sec. a.C.: the ancient urban agglomeration, the
ancient surrounded building in chalk blocks marnoso, a suggestive
Theater set in the culminating point of the hill and traces of two
necropolises. Over the rests of this illustrious city and the preserved
finds in the Antiquarium, a panorama can be admired made of inlets, of
pineta, of fabulous beaches and of a clear sea eternally. In the
historical center of the city the Mother Church devoted Saint to the
Spirit risalente to the 1745 preserve to the inside cloths of Rafael
Politi and the Church of the Purgatory of the seven hundred one inside
which wooden sculptures of merit of the same epoch are guarded.
Eraclea: Archaeology
The rests of the Greek city of Eraclea Minoa are
situated to the beginning of White Head. Before reaching the excavations
it is assisted to the stupendous vision of the white dunes of rock said
"marna", a clay mixture and limestone cleaned by the phenomenons of
erosion and modeled by the wind.
The legenda narrates that Minosse, Clay king, pursued Maze for the whole
Sicily to punish to have helped him/it Arianna and Teseo to go out of
the labyrinth.
Minosse was killed in these territories by the king sicano Cocalo near
which Maze was sheltered.
You says that the name Minoa connects him really to the king killed
cretese.
The excavations, effected beginning from 1950, you/they have brought to
the light you stay of residences in raw bricks, some of which introduces
small parts in mosaic, and particularly a stupendous theater carved on
the same rock very friable marnosa and for this today in continuous
restauration.
From the rests of the theater he succeeds in
individualizing the ogival form of the cavea that he/she closed an
orchestra to form of horseshoe.
Is been recovered besides a Greek necropolis of the first age of the
bronze and and one surrounded building with rests of towers and doors.
To the entry of the archaeological zone a small Antiquarium is found
with the finds recovered in the residences of the city, where possible
to admire ceramics, figurines and tomb outfits is as well as ceramics
fragments of the period mole-eneolitico coming from an underlying level
the archaic necropolis
Eraclea: excursions
The village offers the occasion to devote himself/herself/themselves to the touring that allows to satisfy to full the demand of the impassioned ones of botany and birdwatching, of history and archaeology.
To the first ones we recommend a walk for the path that goes down along the western slope of White Head up to the immense beach where the river flows Platans, besides natural reserve, rich of pines, acacias and eucalyptuses, accompanied by noisy flocks of taccole and black starlings.
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To 16 Kms the inhabited center of Cattolica Eraclea
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to 35 Kms Archaeological Park of Agrigento
Standstills recommended on the run: near
Realmonte
lto white bluff of the Staircase of the Turks, the Roman Villa with attached thermal complex of the epoch; immediately later
Porto Empedocle,
with his I bring from which can be embarked us for
Lampedusa
(natural reserve) and
Linosa, the house Luigi's Pirandello native. Later finally the mythical Valley of the Temples.
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to 70 Kms - Archaeological Park of Selinunte and Segesta (TP)
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to 35 Kms - Thermal baths of Sciacca
The most ancient thermal baths used to therapeutic purpose of which memory is had, found between the IV and the V century a.C., since the antiquity very frequented by the Romans
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to 65 Kms - Thermal Waters of Montevago
A swimming pool picks up the mineral waters (sulfate-alkaline-ferrous) that they go out to a temperature of 37°C.
Why us
The blinding white of the mountain, the green of a beautiful wood of pines, the blue of the sea that bathes a beach of sand African, is the frame of incomparable beauty in which you will be absorbed for a dream vacation.
If you love the archaeology, the art of the ancient monuments we will open for you the casket of our treasures.
