Santuario della Madonna dei Miracoli
The sanctuary of Alcamo's patron, born of an apparition in 1547, with Fernando Vega's sarcophagus and Patania canvases.
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Squares Fontana araba The Arab fountain of Alcamo, still working after more than a thousand years. - Castles Palazzo De Ballis The fifteenth-century Gothic palazzo with the De Ballis tower, in Alcamo's historic centre.
- Museums Museo d'arte sacra di Alcamo The museum of Alcamo's mother church, with 150 works saved from the town's churches after the 1968 earthquake.
- Castles Palazzo comunale di Alcamo Alcamo's nineteenth-century town hall on piazza Ciullo, with Gino Patti's engraved hall and the 1860 plaques.
- Museums Museo degli strumenti musicali multietnici Fausto Cannone More than two hundred instruments from around the world collected by Fausto Cannone, in a former church in Alcamo.
37 places covered in Alcamo Grouped by type, most important first.
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Churches and places of worship
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Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta
Alcamo's mother church, with 38 frescoes by Borremans, red marble columns and sculptures by the Gagini.
Chiesa del Gesù
The Jesuit church on piazza Ciullo in Alcamo, built over eighty years, with a Baroque front and Rococo stucco.
Chiesa del Sacro Cuore
The modern viale Europa parish in Alcamo, with a roof like an upturned boat, mosaics and stained glass.
Chiesa del santissimo Crocifisso
Alcamo's church of the Crucifix, founded in 1550, with canvases of the miracles of Saint Francis of Paola.
Chiesa del Santissimo Salvatore
The Badia Grande church in Alcamo, with Sanseverino's stuccoes and the Gagini marble tabernacle.
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Chiesa della Madonna della Catena
The butchers' church in Alcamo, moved closer to town in 1661, with Renda's Madonna della Catena.
Chiesa delle Anime Sante
Alcamo's Salesian parish with the Don Bosco oratory, born in the area of the old Sant'Ippolito hamlet.
Chiesa di San Francesco d'Assisi
Alcamo's Franciscan church, with two statues by Antonello Gagini and the chapel of the Immaculate.
Chiesa di San Giuseppe Lavoratore
The parish born of a cross planted in 1944 by Father Palumbo, with the gold-mantled Saint Joseph.
Chiesa di sant'Agostino
The Augustinian church in Alcamo, rebuilt in the mid-nineteenth century, with Corinthian capitals and saints.
Chiesa di Sant'Anna
Alcamo's seventeenth-century Capuchin church, with the Stations of the Cross by Friar Felice da Sambuca.
Chiesa di Santa Maria del Rosario
Alcamo's Dominican church, with the fresco of the Madonna della Stella and Carlo Brunetti's Mysteries.
Chiesa di Santa Maria della Stella
The ruin of Alcamo's first mother church, in the San Vito quarter, with its Gothic-Chiaramonte doorway.
Chiesa di Santa Maria di Gesù
Alcamo's Franciscan church with its 1507 doorway, the Greek Madonna and Baldassare Massa's tabernacle.
Chiesetta del Santissimo Salvatore
The little church recorded since 1379 on the Monte Bonifato road, with a Gothic façade redone in 1942.
Chiesetta della Madonna del Riposo
The seventeenth-century chapel at the foot of Monte Bonifato, closed since the 1968 earthquake.
Chiesetta della Madonna di lu Tribonu
The little church on the Monte Bonifato road, with a Pietà, an old cistern and the legend of the penitent thief.
Chiesetta di Sant'Anna
The little church of the Triolo barons below Monte Bonifato, with the tombs of two Risorgimento patriots.
Santuario di Maria Santissima del Fiume
The sanctuary on the Freddo river near Alcamo, linked to the 1820 revolt and the Madonna of the rains.
Santuario di Maria Santissima dell'Alto
The sanctuary on top of Monte Bonifato above Alcamo, goal of the late-August pilgrimage and the 8 September feast.
Chiesa dello Spirito Santo
Alcamo's small fifteenth-century church with its angel frescoes, open only at Pentecost and on 2 November.
Castles, palaces and villas
6Palazzo De Ballis ★
The fifteenth-century Gothic palazzo with the De Ballis tower, in Alcamo's historic centre.
Palazzo comunale di Alcamo ★
Alcamo's nineteenth-century town hall on piazza Ciullo, with Gino Patti's engraved hall and the 1860 plaques.
Castello dei conti di Modica
The fourteenth-century castle in the centre of Alcamo, with four towers, the regional wine library and a museum.
Castello dei Ventimiglia
The surviving tower of the Ventimiglia castle on top of Monte Bonifato, above Alcamo.
Castello di Calatubo
The Norman fortress on the Calatubo crag near Alcamo, now abandoned and open only on rare days.
Torre Calandrino
The Soccorso bell tower in central Alcamo, with a spiral stair still blackened by torch smoke.
Museums, theatres and collections
3Museo d'arte sacra di Alcamo ★
The museum of Alcamo's mother church, with 150 works saved from the town's churches after the 1968 earthquake.
Museo degli strumenti musicali multietnici Fausto Cannone ★
More than two hundred instruments from around the world collected by Fausto Cannone, in a former church in Alcamo.
Teatro Comunale "Cielo d'Alcamo"
Alcamo's municipal theatre opposite the castle, heir to the nineteenth-century Ferrigno, with over eight hundred seats.
Squares, fountains and monuments
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Fontana araba ★
The Arab fountain of Alcamo, still working after more than a thousand years.
Piazza della Repubblica
Alcamo's largest square, an old parade ground in front of the castle of the counts of Modica.
Nature and viewpoints
2Riserva naturale Bosco di Alcamo
The pine wood on top of Monte Bonifato above Alcamo, with rare orchids, three trails and the ruins of Bùnifat.
Parco suburbano San Francesco
The Mediterranean garden below the piazza Bagolino bastion in Alcamo, with play areas, a petting farm and events.
Archaeology
2Cuba delle Rose
The Arab cistern near Calatubo castle, with the legend of Baroness De Ballis's rose garden.
Sito Archeologico del Monte Bonifato
The Monte Bonifato excavations above Alcamo: houses, dry-stone walls and cisterns from Elymian times to the Middle Ages.
Tours, tickets and experiences
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