Agrigento

Agrigento is one of the 50 (50!) UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Italy.  Originally a Greek colony dating from  the 6th century B.C., the excavated areas that can be visited today are from the later Hellenistic and Roman periods.

For those who are interested in visiting the archeological park and the museum at Agrigento, a group of us will be striking off on our own from Palermo on Monday, November 3rd (our last full day in Italy).

We will walk or take cabs from our hotel for one-half mile to Palermo Centrale train station, where we'll get a regional train to Agrigento.  

Palermo Centrale

The two-hour train ride will take us east to Cerda before turning south and traveling through Roccapalumba, Acquaviva, and Aragona, arriving at Agrigento Centrale just before 10 AM.

From the train station in Agrigento we'll take either the public bus or taxi cabs one mile to the archeology museum (we'll visit this first because it closes at 1:30 PM on Mondays) and the park, the Valley of the Temples.

In order to be back in Palermo in time for our farewell dinner that night we'll need to be back at Agrigento Centrale in time for the 3:14 PM train back to Palermo (arriving at 5:16 PM), leaving us about four hours to enjoy the museum and the excavations.

The round trip train fare will be €16,60 and the entry ticket for the museum and the excavations is €10,00.

You can read more about Agrigento here:  Valley of the Temples overview