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.
Read more →Corleone and Bisacquino did not want it: the law said a new town had to stand at least seven miles from any other. But prince Stefano Reggio-Gravina held a ius aedificandi from 1452, and he won: work began in 1768, on the first day of spring.
The first houses were all built the same size, and to fill them the prince promised free land and low rents: people came from the towns around, and by 1798 there were already 775 inhabitants. In Sicilian, though, the town is still called Bellanova, after the Arab village of Ballanūba that stood in these parts and gave Sicily a poet. There are 1,332 residents.
🍝 The flavours of Campofiorito
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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Near Campofiorito
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
Places to see within 25 km
Outside Campofiorito, but an easy day trip away.
Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola 📍 Carpi · 11 km Jesuit church of 1670-1682 in Carpi, on a Greek-cross plan, with scagliola altars and the diocesan museum. Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carpi · 11 km Carpi cathedral begun in 1514 to Peruzzi's design, reopened in 2017 after the 2012 earthquake. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello 📍 Carpi · 12 km Romanesque pieve of 1184, the oldest church in Carpi, with a Peruzzi façade and twelfth-century frescoes. Chiesa di San Bernardino da Siena 📍 Carpi · 12 km Patron church of Carpi, begun in 1604, with the reliquary bust of Saint Bernardino of Siena.