Instead of Agrigento
Instead of Agrigento: coastal towns and hill towns within 2 hours
The Valley of the Temples is the reason to come to Agrigento, and the modern town above it is the reason most people do not stay.
The southern coast either side, and the hill towns inland, are where the province is actually lived in.
Coastal towns and hill towns in our catalogue within 2 hours of Agrigento by road, ranked by outside recognition. Agrigento itself and the other famous places are left out. 10 towns match, and all of them are below.
Instead of Agrigento
Agrigento · 55,512 residents · Sicilia
- Sambuca di SiciliaAgrigento
Hill town · Borgo dei Borghi
- From Agrigento
- 1h 48m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 5,341
- When to go
- Apr–Jun, Sep–Nov
- CalascibettaEnna
Hill town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Agrigento
- 1h 50m by car
- Residents
- 4,062
- When to go
- Apr–Jun, Sep–Nov
- RealmonteAgrigento
Coastal town · Borgo dei Borghi
- From Agrigento
- 22m by car
- Residents
- 4,378
- When to go
- May–Oct
- SuteraCaltanissetta
Hill town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Agrigento
- 44m by car
- Residents
- 1,178
- When to go
- Apr–Jun, Sep–Nov
- AgiraEnna
Hill town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Agrigento
- 1h 35m by car
- Residents
- 7,671
- When to go
- Apr–Jun, Sep–Nov
The 5 best-recognised of the 10 towns that match. Drive times measured by road from Agrigento. More of them follow below.
Sambuca di Sicilia
Province: Agrigento · 350 m
An Arab-founded hill town in the Belice valley, still called Zabut in living memory before 1923.
Calascibetta
Province: Enna · 691 m
A promontory town at 691 meters facing Enna across a ravine, founded in the ninth century as a Muslim camp to besiege Byzantine Henna.
Realmonte
Province: Agrigento · 153 m
The Agrigento coast commune with the white marl cliff of the Scala dei Turchi and a salt mine carved into 5-million-year-old halite.
Sutera
Province: Caltanissetta · 600 m
A medieval village clinging to the base of a 800-meter monolith in the Nisseno interior, with an Arab quarter and a sanctuary on the summit.
Agira
Province: Enna · 650 m
Birthplace of the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus and burial site of 490 Canadian soldiers of the 1943 campaign.
Menfi
Province: Agrigento · 119 m
Sicily's triple-signal western coast town: 11,800 residents on a low ridge above 9 km of protected sand at Porto Palo, backed by cellars and olive groves that between them carry Italy's three major small-town quality marks.
Sciacca
Province: Agrigento · 60 m
A terraced fishing harbor on Sicily's southwestern coast, built on a spa town of the fifth century BC and a ceramics center since the fourteenth.
Corleone
Province: Palermo · 542 m
A town of 10,364 in the Palermo hinterland that gave its name to Mario Puzo's Don Vito and now runs Italy's national antimafia documentation centre.
Mezzojuso
Province: Palermo · 534 m
An Arbëreshë village of two mother churches, one Latin, one Byzantine, whose Arabic name means the houses of Joseph.
Castelvetrano
Province: Trapani · 187 m
The Belice valley town that owns Selinunte, the largest archaeological park in Europe, and bakes black bread from grain found in its tombs.
Drive times measured by road from Agrigento. A town with no time shown is one the router could not reach, usually because it is served by ferry. How this data is built.