About Agrigento
The province of Agrigento comprises
forty-three cities and covers an area of 3,041.90 square kilometres.
Agrigento, the capital city, is one of high tourism importance,
boasting inestimable historical, naturalistic and archaeological
attractions. Notably, it has managed to take advantage of its
resources also thanks to promoting and supporting initiatives
such as the Mandorlo in Fiore festival (almond blossom
festival), a long-awaited event recurring every year in February
in the breath-taking Valley of the Temples. The city is also
renowned for being the birth-place of illustrious figures such
as the Greek philosopher Empedocles and the writer Luigi Pirandello.
Agrigento boasts outstanding culinary traditions that a number
of delicious dishes have rendered most famous. Among these are
pasta with ricotta and fava-beans from a country
tradition, and pasta with sardines alla sciacchitana.
Sweets are as much appreciated; noteworthy are the cucuzzata,
pumpkin jam much used in confectionery and the Uova
murine, a traditional sweet from Sciacca.
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