Center of Muslim origin, Cammarata has a history and a life revolving around the Castle with its seven towers was impregnable. In fact at the time of Bartolomeo Aragona troops Bernardo Cabrera after three months of trying, they were forced to abandon the site. In 1087 the castle had to yield to the forces of Count Ruggero after the conquest sold it to a relative, Lucia Altavilla, who took the title Dominae Camaratae.

Cammarata, and thus the twin city of San Giovanni Gemini (certainly unique and unusual is the story of two centers: glued to one another, even with a street in the city called with two names Corso dei Mille on the side of Cammarata Father's Pilusa on the side of San Giovanni Gemini) are the places mountain resort where you can relax and enjoy the natural environment.

Part of Mount Cammarata stands where the city is a nature reserve; a good route starts from Cammarata and the adjacent city of San Giovanni Gemini, through the beautiful forest in the mountains and reaches the other side, to the Hermitage of Santa Rosalia and the city of Santo Stefano Quisquina.

Monuments to visit

The castle, rebuilt for the first time in 1101 and subsequently moved to several feudal families, unfortunately, very little remains today. However, you still see visible remains of the walls, the two towers which are now used as exhibition spaces and small around the old town area characterized by narrow streets of a typical Norman village of origin that still retains vestiges of its ancient past. A dense network of alleys, cobbled courtyards and picturesque typical stairways, arches Arab-Norman, which are interconnected with narrow streets. The main street of the old town is the "strada carrozza" one of the few flat roads and transport, which leads from the municipality to the Castle, former residence of the lords of Cammarata. Among the monuments to visit the Mother Church dedicated to St. Nicholas it was built in the twelfth century., In which a splendid body of 500, a former tabernacle of marble and several paintings, including one of Pietro d'Asaro remained. The Church of Santa Catalina inside preserves a wooden cross 500 historians attribute this work to a recording of Sicily at the time.

Not to be missed

Visit the Ethnographic Museum

In the interior Castle tower you can admire a sample of local crafts.

The "Nivere"

Among the Gemini and Cammarata mountains are still traces of the old "nivere" (refrigerators), a kind of stone enclosure where, in the cold months, within is accumulated and Crimping snow, protected from the infiltration of light the sun by the huge thatched roofs, to then use it with food and therapeutic targets in the warmer months.