The villa was built in the 3C-4C AD in a verdant valley to the south of the village of Piazza Armerina. This lavish residence, located at the heart of a vast estate, charms visitors on account of its exceptional and prodigiously lively mosaics: hunti..

This immense gallery in the Villa Romana del Casale , the Corridor of the Great Hunting Scene, contains fine mosaics. On the ground an astounding hunting scene depicts panthers, lions, antelopes, boars, ostriches, camels and elephants being captured..

Three semicircular exhedras open onto a large, square central hall. The central part is decorated with mosaics depicting the Twelve Labours of Hercules , for example the Hydra of Lerna, with Hercules depicted cutting off its heads. At the centre of ..

In this room in the Villa Romana del Casale , the Room of the Small Hunt, five paintings illustrate the significant moments of a hunt. In an attempt to win favour with Diana, goddess of hunting, who is depicted on a column in the centre of the secon..

This room in the Villa Romana del Casale , the Circus Room, was the bathhouse gymnasium. The mosaic decoration reproduces the setting of a circus that has been identified as the Rome's Circus Maximus. The theme illustrated here is the quadriga race..

In this room in the Villa Romana del Casale , a few cupid-like cherubs are depicted line fishing, with a harpoon and a net or playing with dolphins. The upper part of the walls shows the coast, upon which there stands a grand villa with a façade emb..

Near to the Canicarao Palace which contains the Tourist Office, this square is flanked by the church of Fundro (1613) dedicated to St Roch and by the Town hall which dates from the 18C.

This 18C complex is today a hospital but it has a brick and sandstone church adorned with a campanile crowned with a conical spire in majolica. To the south side of the convent there is an attractive balcony decorated with Baroque consoles by G.V. Ga..

In this street which runs from Piazza Garibaldi are two attractive churches opposite each other: the church of St Ignatius Loyola which has an attractive horseshoe staircase and the church of Sant’Anna with a curved façade. In the background stands t..

It is hard to miss this impressive Baroque church topped by a high dome overlooking the centre. The bell tower has Gothic-Catalan windows. The façade of the cathedral has a doorway with twisted columns and a large square window surmounted by an eag..

This 12C hermitage is a little further out from the centre and not far away is the church and convent of S. Maria del Ges— (from the same period which although abandoned is worth a visit for the attractive portico topped by a loggia.