Patron saint festival In 96 days
Saint Hypatius, patron of Tiggiano
📅 Every year, on 19 January
Tiggiano celebrates Saint Hypatius on 19 January, in the church dedicated to him.
Tiggiano has a stretch of coast but you cannot go down to it: the cliff is high and closed, and the sea is only to be looked at. The name may come from the gens Tedia, or from the god Janus, who is in the coat of arms; the village appears for the first time in a document of 1270, when it enters the county of Alessano.
In 1640 baron Gallone sold the fief to a physician and philosopher from Morciano, Angelo Serafini: his family were made barons the following year and ruled until 1806, leaving the palace with its Italian garden and its wood of holm oaks. On the front of the church of Sant'Ippazio, inside the niche, the statue of the saint has no head.
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Bagni di Cefalà Diana 📍 Cefalà Diana · 8.4 km The only Islamic bathhouse still standing in Sicily: four sunken pools and a worn Kufic band Monte Porcara 📍 Bagheria · 16 km 388-metre mountain above Bagheria: walls and necropolis of a Hellenised indigenous settlement, perhaps ancient Paropo. Castello di Misilmeri 📍 Misilmeri · 17 km An Arab-Norman fortress built by Emir Jafar II between 998 and 1019 overlooking the Eleuterio River valley. Villa Valguarnera 📍 Bagheria · 18 km Eighteenth-century villa in Bagheria begun in 1712: key-shaped plan, frescoed salons and the Montagnola hill. Villa Palagonia 📍 Bagheria · 19 km Bagheria's villa of the monsters, which unsettled Goethe and entered Faust. Torre Amalfitano 📍 Bagheria · 17 km Farm tower in Bagheria, probably thirteenth-century, rebuilt in 1546: water cistern, warehouse and crenellated terrace.