Geoparco UNESCO
Geoparco UNESCO in Sicily
7 towns
Sicily holds 7 Geoparco UNESCO sites inside our catalogue. They are in the Palermo and Enna provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Cefalù, Geraci Siculo, and Petralia Soprana. 4 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
The towns
Cefalù
Province: Palermo · 16 m
A Norman cathedral at the foot of a 270-meter rock on the Tyrrhenian coast, founded in 1131.
Geraci Siculo
Province: Palermo · 1,077 m
A Madonie ridge village at 1,077 meters, capital of the Ventimiglia marquisate from 1258 and the first marquisate granted in Sicily.
Petralia Soprana
Province: Palermo · 1,147 m
The highest village in the Madonie at 1,147 meters, RAI Borgo dei Borghi 2018 winner, sitting above 80 kilometers of salt tunnels.
Petralia Sottana
Province: Palermo · 1,000 m
A Madonie village at 1,000 meters, a Bandiera Arancione town, and the headquarters of the Parco delle Madonie.
Castelbuono
Province: Palermo · 423 m
A Madonie town at 423 meters around the Ventimiglia castle, where manna is still tapped from ash trees and Fiasconaro bakes the panettone.
Polizzi Generosa
Province: Palermo · 917 m
A Madonie town at 917 meters, hazelnut country and the birthplace of Domenico Dolce.
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.
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Five more towns
Sondrio
Province: Sondrio
The capital of Valtellina at 307 meters, where Castel Masegra watches over terraced vineyards that produce Sassella and Grumello Nebbiolo.
Cerreto Sannita
Province: Benevento
A Sannio ceramics town at 290 meters, replanned on an orthogonal grid after the 1688 earthquake leveled the old hill.
Orbetello
Province: Grosseto
A town on a narrow isthmus at the center of its own lagoon, fortified by Spain in 1557.
Varallo
Province: Vercelli
The capital of Valsesia at 450 meters, crowned by a forty-five-chapel devotional complex on the rock above town.
Rocca Pietore
Province: Belluno
An Agordino borgo at 1,143 meters under the Marmolada, where the Pettorina cuts a two-kilometer gorge through 100-meter rock walls.