Sfincione soft focaccia with tomato, onion, anchovies and caciocavallo
Tall, soft bread dough, tomato, onion, anchovies, oregano and caciocavallo: sfincione is Palermo's focaccia, cut into squares.
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Created in 1927 out of parts of Caltanissetta and Catania, this province was meant to have Piazza Armerina as its capital; the title went to Enna, then called Castrogiovanni, through the political weight of one man, Napoleone Colajanni. Enna stands on a mountain and is the highest provincial capital in Sicily, and this is the only corner of the island with no coastline at all. Twenty towns share the interior, bordered by Messina, Palermo, Caltanissetta and Catania.
Most travellers come for Piazza Armerina and the floor mosaics of the Roman Villa del Casale, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1997. Nearby Aidone has the excavations of Morgantina. Enna itself repays the climb, with its cathedral, the church of San Francesco d'Assisi and a view straight across the middle of Sicily; Nicosia and Calascibetta take another day, and Sperlinga, home to barely eight hundred people, is the smallest of the twenty.
Towns in the province of Enna
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The top 11 places in Enna
Our editors' ranking: the area's most important places, drawn from the individual town guides. See the national rankings →
1 🏺 Archaeological sites Villa Romana del Casale 📍 Piazza Armerina A landslide buried and saved them: 3,500 m² of Roman mosaics outside Piazza Armerina. 
2 🖼️ Museums Morgantina 📍 Aidone The Greek city looted for decades: its goddess came home from the Getty in 2011. 
3 🖼️ Museums Museo archeologico di Aidone 📍 Aidone The village museum where works dug up secretly and sold abroad have come back. - 4 Castello di Sperlinga Sperlinga · 🏰 Castles & palaces
- 5 lago Pergusa Enna · 🌋 Nature & views
- 6 Museo archeologico regionale di Enna Enna · 🖼️ Museums
- 7 cattedrale di Piazza Armerina Piazza Armerina · ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries
- 8 Chiesa di Sant'Anna Villarosa · ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries
- 9 Convento dei Cappuccini Villarosa · ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries
- 10 chiesa di San Francesco d'Assisi Enna · ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries
- 11 duomo di Enna Enna · ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries
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🍝 At the table: Sicily
Arancina fried rice ball stuffed with meat ragù
Saffron rice, ragù with peas and caciocavallo cheese inside a golden crust. Round and feminine in Palermo, pointed and called arancino in Catania: the quarrel is serious.
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Arancino fried rice cone stuffed with ragù, pointed like Etna
Saffron rice, ragù with peas and caciocavallo inside a golden cone-shaped crust: in Catania it is masculine and pointed, and the quarrel with Palermo over the name is serious.
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Saint Ambrose, patron of a town with six religious feasts besides Good Friday
📅 Every year, on 7 December
Cerami celebrates Saint Ambrose on 7 December; the town's religious feasts, six in all besides Good Friday, begin on the second-to-last Saturday of May with the feast of Saint Michael the Archangel and continue with the «Festa dell'Incontro».
Saint Sylvester, the monk of Troina celebrated with a river of laurel branches
📅 Every year, on 2 January; the first Saturday of June the procession of relics and the Cavalcade
Troina celebrates the monk Saint Sylvester on 2 January with the Festa dei Ramari, a parade carrying a river of laurel branches through the town's streets; in June the procession of relics precedes the Cavalcade, recalling Charles V's entry into the city.
Saint Alexander, patron of a town founded by the Barresi barons
📅 Every year, on 3 May
Barrafranca celebrates Saint Alexander on 3 May; the 15th-century church of Maria Santissima dell'Itria holds the Annunciation by Mattia Preti, while the town, called Convicino in Norman times, took its current name in 1529.
Saint Philip of Agira, patron of an ancient city once called Agyrion
📅 Every year, on 12 May
Agira celebrates Saint Philip of Agira on 12 May; in the Royal Abbey Church dedicated to him a wooden crucifix is kept, the work of Giovan Francesco Pitorno, better known as Friar Umile da Petralia, in the town that arose on the site of ancient Agyrion.