What to See in Sciacca: Attractions & Sights

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Basilica di Maria Santissima del Soccorso Churches
Sciacca's mother church, founded in 1108: Gagini sculptures and a vault frescoed by Tommaso Rossi.
Cappella di San Giorgio dei Genovesi a Sciacca Churches
A chapel built in 1520 by Sciacca's Genoese merchants and demolished in 1952.
Castello dei Luna Castles
The scant remains of Sciacca's castle, tied to the bloody feud between the Luna and Perollo families.
Chiesa di San Michele Churches
A 1371 Sciacca church that keeps two Holy Thorns from Christ's crown, a gift of the Peralta.
Chiesa di San Nicolò La Latina Churches
The oldest church in Sciacca: three Norman apses and fragments of Byzantine frescoes
Chiesa di Santa Margherita Churches
A 1342 Sciacca church with a 1468 marble portal by Pietro de Bonitate to a design by Laurana.
Chiesa di Santa Maria della Raccomandata Churches
An old Sciacca church with a magnificent Norman ogival portal and a Pantocrator recovered in restoration.
Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Giummare Churches
Sciacca's Norman church founded by Judith of Hauteville, the only Cluniac priory in southern Italy.
Monte San Calogero Museums
Sciacca's hill with its hot-vapour healing caves and some of the world's oldest evidence of wine.
Piazza del Popolo Squares
Sciacca's oldest square, now piazza Scandaliato, born by filling in an old ditch.
Palazzo Steripinto Castles
The 1501 palace in Sciacca with a façade of diamond-pointed stone blocks and Gothic windows.
Santuario di San Calogero Churches
The sanctuary on Monte San Calogero above Sciacca, with the saint's cave and a statue from the Gagini worksho…
Teatro popolare Samonà Museums
Giuseppe and Alberto Samonà's theatre in Sciacca, built of three solids and left unfinished for decades.