Agrigento is one of Sicily’s hidden gems. It offers historical and cultural riches as well as culinary delights in a breathtaking natural setting where visitors can travel more slowly. Agrigento ...

Sicilian city of Agrigento 'bled dry' by corrupt councillors who earn up to €10,000 a time for 'ghost meetings' Thousands of furious residents demand the scalps of those who have been lining ...

Located on Sicily’s southwestern coast, Agrigento is Italy's Capital of Culture in 2025. The Capital of Culture scheme is an annual recognition awarded by Italy’s Culture Ministry which aims to ...

The city of Agrigento, which was founded about 580 BCE as the largest Greek colony on Sicily, was also home to a gymnasium. This construction had already been acknowledged in previous research to ...

The city's churches and monuments, notably the Cathedral of San Geraldo (constructed in 1301), are also worth visiting Agrigento also offers a peek at contemporary Sicilian culture.

Francesco Picarella, head of Agrigento’s Hotel Federation, who also owns a hotel in the city center, says years of ineffective governance have made things worse.

One of the gigantic Atlanteans from the temple of Olympian Zeus in Agrigento. Credit: Palickap / Wikimedia Commons This epigraphic testimony, dated by the writing style to the late 1st century BCE, is ...

Although they are more than 5,000 miles and half a day's airplane journey apart, Tampa and Agrigento, Italy, have some things in common. Both are port cities that thrive on tourism, and both ...