Sciacca

We’ll be staying in Sciacca for 5 nights around Easter this year. So this is my list of possibilities, not recommendations.

One of our main reasons to visit Sciacca is to daytrip on Easter Monday to the small town of San Biagio Platani for the town’s Easter arches decorations. Some or all may still be in place when you visit but you’d have to rent a car or take a taxi. The Museo Degli Archi Di Pasqua should still be there.

My notes:

spa town since 5th century

view from Piazza Scandaliato

local handmade pottery along the central Corso Vittorio Emanuele

majolica-decorated Scalinata Artistica

medieval layout divides town into quarters, each on a strip of rock descending to sea

Cathedral – early 12th cent. dedicated to Magdalene, late Ren. frescoes by Tommaso Rossi. On altar = statue of Our Lady of Help, patroness of city, attrib to Laurana, 1500 baptismal font

Chiesa del Carmine…Near church of Santa Margherita. Gothic rose window on 1300 facade. Many works of art including a statue of St. Vitus, several mid 16th century paintings, sarcophagus of Norman Gilberto. Cool gate nearby.

Palazzo Steripinto — cool exterior

Food:

Tabisca saccense (pizza with, sardines, tomato, pecorino, oregano, onion)

Minestra di sarde (potatoes, wild fennel & peas)

Ova murina or summer cannolo

Crepes (almonds, cinnamon, cocoa, eggs, marsala) & cream

Cucchiteddi (almond paste &/pumpkin jam)

http://www.bestofsicily.com/mag/art87.htm

https://www.tasteatlas.com/best-rated-dishes-in-sicily

Corso Vittorio Emanuele on the right side the medieval Torre del Pardo, then 15th century Palazzo Perollo in late Gothic style. On the left side of the former Hospital of St. Margaret of the 14th century.

Former church of San Gerlando = beautiful stone portal & top of facade

Skip Soap & Toy museums

Port & alleys of Fishermen's neighborhood & medieval Rabato.

Kasbah & Jewish quarter, alley of mosaics using recycled objects

You should visit Dr. Fauci’s ancestral home.

https://italoamericano.org/sciacca-coral-town-the-ancestral-land-of-dr-fauci/