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Santa Elisabetta

 

Small town, founded in 1670 by the aristocratic family of the Montaperto. Recent finds in the hills behind the town of Keli, have allowed us to ensure that the area was already quite inhabited in the 1st millennium BC

 

Monuments to visit

In the main street of the village you can admire the ceramic panels representing the cycle of work in the fields and the Mother Church rebuilt in the eighteenth century.

 

Not to be missed

Mount Guastanella – Guastanella Castle

The mountain, which has a projection of about 250 meters on the surrounding mountains, is a chalky hill, On it is an archaeological site comprising a necropolis and also preserving the remains of a Moorish castle. The castle was used by Arab Guastanella musilmani as a place of exile, here was imprisoned three times in subsequent periods, the bishop of Agrigento Ursone. Between 1221 and 1232 Frederick II returned to Sicily fought the Arabs, defeated them and destroyed even the fortress of the castle today are a few ruins. On top of Mount Guastanella there are ancient caves dug into the wall.

 

Necropolis of Keli

It 'a site that has huge potential for interesting finds. The precious archaeological heritage, of the late Roman-Byzantine tombs shows arcosolium probably adapted by early Christians on a previous protohistoric necropolis of tombs which are visible "in the oven"