Villafranca Sicula, town situated on the hill of San Calogero at about 370 meters above sea level, is a thriving agricultural center of Agrigento is just over 60 km; its territory is included in the production area of ​​the Orange of Ribera.

The town was founded in 1499 by the noble family Alliatas from Pisa who had purchased the land in 1496 from the monastery of St. George of Triocala; it obtained the title of princes in 1609 and were feudal lords until 1812. The valley was inhabited by the Sicani, pushed in the central-west of the island by the Sicilians, warlike people from the peninsula, and by the Elimi coming from today's Turkey .

It is claimed that the name of Viliafranca has been given or to the fact that the people who settled in the new village were granted numerous exemptions, or because the technician in charge of the family Alliatas for choosing the place where to raise the town's name was Calcerano Viliafranca. This village was once inhabited by a colony of workers coming from the center of Trapani Salaparuta, previously founded by the family Alliatas. Today's historical and artistic assets, the village still intact are the result of the generosity and love for the art of family Alliatas.

Monuments to visit

In Corso Vittorio Emanuele, it is the Mother Church, Our Lady of Myrtle, founded in the '600 and rebuilt in the' 700, then damaged by the earthquake of 1968.

In the same way, they are the Church of the Carmine, the '500 and the Church of St. John the Baptist of the same century.

The town also has a rich heritage day "murals", made in 1991 by the painter Giovanni Smeraldi villafranchese and consists of four large murals representing variously traditions of the country.