What to see · Sciacca

Sciacca's mother church, founded in 1108: Gagini sculptures and a vault frescoed by Tommaso Rossi.

A chapel built in 1520 by Sciacca's Genoese merchants and demolished in 1952.

The scant remains of Sciacca's castle, tied to the bloody feud between the Luna and Perollo families.

A 1371 Sciacca church that keeps two Holy Thorns from Christ's crown, a gift of the Peralta.

A small 12th-century Norman church in Sciacca, with an Arab-Norman front and apse.

A 1342 Sciacca church with a 1468 marble portal by Pietro de Bonitate to a design by Laurana.

An old Sciacca church with a magnificent Norman ogival portal and a Pantocrator recovered in restoration.

Sciacca's Norman church founded by Judith of Hauteville, the only Cluniac priory in southern Italy.

Sciacca's hill with its hot-vapour healing caves and some of the world's oldest evidence of wine.

Sciacca's oldest square, now piazza Scandaliato, born by filling in an old ditch.