The steam caves of San Calogero — natural grottoes whose vapours have healed for millennia — made Sciacca a spa town before the Romans. The fishing port, among Sicily's busiest, fills the terraced-house scenery with painted boats; Sciacca coral, uniquely orange-toned, lives on in the goldsmiths' shops.
The carnival, among the island's oldest, parades satirical floats that spare no one. Ceramics, Norman and Baroque churches and the Enchanted Castle with Filippo Bentivegna's carved heads complete a genuine town that tourism has not yet tamed.
Near Sciacca
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
