Overview

The guests can use the bicycles (free) to go to the sea ,or to the promenade (700 metres from the villa Villa amico is also 3 kilometers from the valley of temples. Free bicycles. Free gated parking. 700 from the beach of San Leone and 2 Kilometers from the Valley of temples. An indespensable leg ofa journey for those who want to know the 'Magna Grecia', a necessary stop off for pilgrims of eastern spirit, a votive place dear to phylosophers who went looking for knowledge even within the volcanos. Agrigento was a meeting point for all the civilizations that have influenced the scene both externally and internally of Sicily and its proud inhabitans. The Valley of the Temples is the best known and most praised part of Agrigento. The monuments standing in it are what is left of the ancient city of Akragas which was founded in the sixth century B. by settlers from Gela and became in the space of 100 years 'the finest city of mortals'. Destroyed by the Carthaginians in 406, it was re-founded by Timoleontes in 340 B. and enjoyed new moments of splendour, though inevitably heading for a decline, which became definitive with the Byzantines. After it went to the Normans, the city was made a diocese and was embellished with numerous churches. Palaces and monuments also continued to be put up in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and again in the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries.