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	Agrigento - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Agrigento (Girgenti in Sicilian, former official name) is the name of a town on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy, capital of the province of Agrigento.
		Agrigento was captured by the Normans under Count Roger I in 1087, who established a Latin bishopric there.
		Agrigento is a major tourist center due to its extraordinarily rich archaeological legacy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agrigento (1229 words)

	Agrigento, Italy
		Agrigento is the junction of the SS 115 (Trapani-Siracusa), SS 189 (to Palermo) and SS 640 (to Caltanisetta); railroad station.
		Agrigento, provincial capital and bishop's seat, very close to the southern coast of Sicily and magnificently situated in hilly countryside, is also, because of its superb temple ruins, one of the most rewarding towns in Sicily to visit.
		Greek temples in Agrigento from the fifth-sixth C. Valley of the temples in Agrigento.
	www.planetware.com /italy/agrigento-i-si-ag.htm (970 words)

	Province of Agrigento - Sicilia - Italy
		The Province of Agrigento has a surface area of about 3041 square km, with a total population of about 470,000 inhabitants.
		The Sicani Mountains border the province to the north, the Salso river to the east and the Belice river to the west.
		The province includes also the Pelagie islands situated in the southernmost corner of Italy, 200km off from the Sicilian coast, comprising the islands of Lampedusa, Linosa and Lampione.
	www.italyworldclub.com /sicilia/agrigento/index.html (169 words)

	Province of Agrigento - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Map highlighting the location of Agrigento in Italy
		Agrigento (Italian: Provincia di Agrigento) is a province in the autonomous island region of Sicily in Italy.
		There are 43 comunes (Italian: comuni) in the province[1], see Comunes of the Province of Agrigento.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Province_of_Agrigento (142 words)

	Hotels, B&B, Farm Holiday, Apartments in agrigento Italy
		Situated in the new city,heart of Agrigento from both and commercial point of view, this B&B is located in an old seventeenth century building carefully renovated to preserve the old and confortable atmosphere.
		A few steps from the extraordinary and untouched Valley of the Temples, in Agrigento, you find 'Casa Fiorita', a Bed & Breakfast which is the ideal accomodation for everybody who want the maximum in quaint of comfort and attention to details in the magic atmosphere of a place wit...
		Situated in the old city,heart of Agrigento from both an historical and commercial point of view, this B&B is located in an old seventeenth century building carefully renovated to preserve the old and confortable atmosphere.
	www.bbplanet.it /st_en.asp?provincia=AGRIGENTO (471 words)

	The province of Agrigento
		The archaeological heritage of this province is immense.
		The territory of Agrigento is generous and fertile, mountainous and washed by the sea.
		In the province of Agrigento you can find everything and, if we add the friendliness and generosity of the people, we guarantee that your stay will be wonderful and that you will want to come back to this splendid radiant land.
	www.siciliaoggi.it /html/agrigento/agriproeng.htm (496 words)

	Province of Agrigento - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The city of Agrigento originates from the ancient Akragas, that colonists from the neighboring Gela founded around 580 BC in a most favorable and fertile area.
		It is situated in proximity to the Acropolis and Rupe Atenea hills.
		Under the Normans, who ruled since 1087, the city achieved political importance; its bishop seat was restored and re-organized and new important buildings such as the cathedral and other fortifications were erected across the territory.
	www.agrigento-sicilia.it /english/storia.htm (206 words)

	Agrigento - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Agrigento (Latin Agrigentum; Greek Akragas), city, Italy, southern Sicily, capital of Agrigento Province, on the Mediterranean Sea.
		Empedocles (490?-430 bc), Greek philosopher, statesman, and poet, born in Agrigentum (now Agrigento), Sicily.
		He is said to have built a hollow bronze bull in...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Agrigento.html (64 words)

	The Province of Agrigento (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The province of Agrigento comprises forty-three cities and covers an area of 3,041.90 square kilometres.
		Agrigento, the capital city, is one of high tourism importance, boasting inestimable historical, naturalistic and archaeological attractions.
		Agrigento boasts outstanding culinary traditions that a number of delicious dishes have rendered most famous.
	www.sicilynet.it /agrigento/introduction.htm (180 words)

	GANGSTERS INCORPORATED - AGRIGENTO
		In Agrigento's province there are also the cities Siculiana, Palma di Montechiaro, Porto Empedocle, Menfi, Sciacca, Canicatti, Raffadali, Racalmuto (here was Leonardo Sciascia born), Favara (had in 1981 a population of 32793).
		At the end of the 70ties there is a mafia war in Agrigento and province for the control of the druglines to the US, when Stefano Fregapane and his son Francesco get shot down in their village Santa Elisabetta, some of their Fregapane clan move to belgium.
		In the province Agrigento, which was ruled by Regiomember Ferro, the boss of Canicatti, arrived great loads of drugs in the harbour Porto Empedocle.
	gangstersinc.tripod.com /PupAgrigento.html (6002 words)

	Highways, harbours, airports and railways in the province of Agrigento
		The main civil airport of the province of Palermo is "Falcone - Borsellino" in Palermo - Punta Raisi, 35 km.
		The main civil airport of the province of Catania is "Filippo Eredia" in Catania - Fontanarossa, 6 Km.
		In province of Agrigento the port for travelling of travellers is Porto Empedocle.
	www.sicilia.indettaglio.it /eng/trasporti/ag/trasportiag.html (343 words)

	Accommodation Agrigento,Alberghi Agrigento,Bed and Breakfast Agrigento
		Agrigento is Sicily’s richest archaeological treasure and it has always described as the ‘most beautiful city of the mortals’.
		Agrigento is also the place of birth of the famous writer Luigi Pirandello, Nobel Prize winner in 1934.
		In the historical hearth of Agrigento, there is the Church of St. Nicholas was erected in the 13C in a transitional Romanesque to Gothic style.
	www.sleepinsicily.com /locations/agrigento_pres.html (266 words)

	Farmhouses - agriturismo throughout Sicily
		This family run baglio is located in a rural setting in the province of Trapani and lies between the slopes of Mount Erice and the Stagnone Lagoon.
		Agriturismo Casalicchio is located in a rural and isolated setting in the province of Agrigento and overlooking the valley of the River Plantani.
		The accommodation is situated on a promontory overlooking the Vallone valley, to the North-east of Menfi and within the Province of Agrigento.
	www.opensicily.com /en/farmhouses_list.php (1046 words)

	Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Agrigento"
		Agrigento (formerly Girgenti) is the name of a town on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy, capital of the province of Agrigento.
		The town has about 55,000 inhabitants, and other important towns in the province include Licata and Naro, the latter distinctive for its well-preserved catacombs, or secret places of worship used by the earliest Christians.
		Its origins are very ancient and notably Agrigento still offers the enchanting view of a presumedly sacred area built when Greeks landed there to start the civilisation of Magna Graecia.
	www.omnipelagos.com /entry?n=agrigento (172 words)

	Agrigento holiday villas. Holiday accommodation in Agrigento, Italy. Agrigento apartments, Agrigento hotels. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Located on a plateau overlooking Sicily's southern coast, Agrigento was founded as Akragas around 582 BC by a group of colonists from Gela, who themselves were the immediate descendants of Greeks from Rhodes and Crete.
		Unfortunately, most of the temples at Agrigento are in ruins, with pieces strewn about, and several appear to have never even been completed.
		In Borgo Bonsignore, small fraction of the town of Ribera in the province of Agrigento, we propose this spacious and comfortable apartment in villa bi-familiar.
	www.casaspasia.com /en/case/citta.php?a=29 (461 words)

	info: Province_of_Agrigento (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Province of Agrigento - Sicilia - ItalyProvince of Province of Agrigento, Region Sicilia Italy, with surnames and information on the...
		The Province of Agrigento has a surface area of about 3041 square km, with a total population of...
		Highways, harbours, airports and railways in the province of AgrigentoTransports in the province of Agrigento.
	www.napoli-pizza.net /Province_of_Agrigento.html (475 words)

	AGRIGENTO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Among the most renowned are the philosopher Empedocles (5C BC), who died, according to legend, by leaping into the crater of Etna attempting to prove his divine powers (and, as in confirmation of this, Etna is supposed to have thrown back his shoes, which had turned to bronze).
		The Ephebus of Agrigento (Room 10) consists of a marble statue of a young man (5C BC), found in a cistern near the Temple of Demeter, which was transferred during the Norman period to the Church of San Biagio.
		It is thought to represent a young man from Agrigento who won various events at the Olympic games, and thus destined to be subjected to heroic status.
	www.sicilyweb.com /english/agrigento/agrigento.htm (2378 words)

	AGRIGENTO Bed and Breakfast, Case Vacanza, Appartamenti, Ostelli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Restructured ancient country house of 1908, in an archaeological zone with a panoramic sight on the city of Agrigento and the sea.
		Situated in the old city, via Atenea is in the heart of Agrigento from both an historical and commercial point of view, Atenea 191 is located in an old seventeenth century building carefully renovated to preserve old and cofortable atmosphere t...
		from the temples and from the hellenistic quarter of Agrigento, 50 km.
	www.bed-and-breakfast-sicily.it /bed_and_breakfast_agrigento.cfm (2505 words)

	Agrigento, Sicily - History, Cuisine, and Tourism
		The city of Agrigento was founded in 582 BC by colonists who were the descendants of Greeks.
		Despite having a long history, Agrigento has a young name: orignally named Akragas, it was called Agrigentum by the Romans and Girgenti by the Saracens; the name Agrigento was only given to the area in 1927.
		During the Byzantine and Saracen rules of Sicily, the province of Agrigento was largely ignored, but the Normans realized the potential of the city and constructed many beautiful churches and cathedrals.
	www.allthingssicilian.com /Agrigento2.html (448 words)

	AGRIGENTO, SICILY, TO HOST UNESCO MULTAQA MEDITERRANEAN FORUM {9 September 1998} (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Whereas the Mediterranean might appear an area prey to all the contradictions, and tensions of our time, from the degradation of the environment to nationalistic and fundamentalist violence, UNESCO prefers to see it as an area of hope where a real communality of destiny can be forged, mindful of the diversity of its peoples.
		The establishment of a Mediterranean Council of Culture and of an Intervention Group against Violence in the Mediterranean - to be composed of prominent figures from the sciences, arts, letters, cinema and journalism - should be born of this initiative.
		Thursday, September 17 in Agrigento, will be devoted to a meeting divided into workshops of all the networks linked to UNESCO’s Mediterranean Programme.
	www.unesco.org /bpi/eng/unescopress/98-183e.htm (377 words)

	Hotel Farm House in Sicily, Agrigento
		Founded with the name of Akragas by the inhabitants of Gela in the 6th century BC., Agrigento quickly became an important centre in Magna Grecia.
		Agrigento is situated on Sicily's southern coast and its Valley of the Temples (Valle dei Templi) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the greatest legacies of ancient Greece.
		In the Valley of the Temples there are the ruins of numerous temples but also necropoli, houses, streets and everything else one would expect to find in an ancient city.
	www.insicilia.it /sicily/agrigento_sicily.htm (243 words)

	agrigento Bed and Breakfast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It was obtained by the restauration of old small houses builded in the historical centre of the town, in the highest zone of the city (the ancient arabic quarter), in the full respect of the original architectu...
		A few steps from the extraordinaryand untouched Valley of the Temples, in Agrigento, you find Casa Fiorita, a Bed & Breakfast which is the ideal accomodation for everybody who want the maximum in quaint of confort and attention to details in the magic atmosphere of a place with an amazingly interesting history and heritage.
		The house is distant only a few minutes of car from the center of Agrigento, from the spendid Temples and from the sea; it is possible to easily reach the near town of Favara in order to visit the imposing and anc...
	www.sicilynet.it /bed-and-breakfast.cfm?provincia=ag&p=agrigento (3029 words)

	Agrigento and The Valley of the Temples - The Sicily Site
		Parts of the Agrigento still reflect their Medieval heritage in particular the church of San Nicola and the Cathedral.
		Today it is the main town in the province of Agrigento, and is the commercial and shopping centre.
		The Valley of the temples in agrigento is home to some of the finest remains of Greek temples outside of Greece.
	www.thesicilysite.com /Pages/Agrigento.htm (250 words)

	Agrigento, Sicily, Italy - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		Agrigento was founded by Greeks from the city of Gela about 582 BC and became an important trading and cultural center with a population of about 200,000.
		After 406 BC, when it was sacked by a force from Carthage, the city (then known as Akragas) declined in importance, although it remained large.
		It was attributed to Juno, the goddess of marriage and birth, and it still keeps unchanged the entrance cell colonnade (in part restored in the 20th century).
	www.galenfrysinger.com /agrigento_sicily.htm (303 words)

	Agrigento, Sicily, Italy hotels from ahotelinitaly.com - view and book online
		With a fabulous position on Sicily's southern coast, Agrigento is home to the spectacular Valle Dei Templi - a string of seven ancient Greek temples and the remains of what was once...
		This hotel in Agrigento, Sicily has a superb location, overlooking the bay and the Valley of the Temples.
		Agrigento is famous for this UNESCO World Heritage site - home to the most impressive ancient Greek remains outside Greece itself.
	www.ahotelinitaly.com /italy/hotels/sicily/agrigento/agrigento/1 (302 words)

	Agrigento Hotels, Accommodation in Sicily, Italy
		The Hotel has got 102 rooms, all with balcony over the sea or the hinterland and is ideal for businessmen as well as for tourists.
		The valley is known for the springtime event where the pervasive yet pleasant scent of orange flowers (locally called zagare).
		In a poor village close to Agrigento, the Contrada Xaos (which means Chaos), was born perhaps the most famous Italian dramatist, Luigi Pirandello.
	www.magicaljourneys.com /Italy/italy-hotels-southern-sicily-agrigento.html (1023 words)

	Rome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rome (Italian and Latin: Roma) is the capital city of Italy, and the country's largest and most populous comune, with about 2,5 millions residents (3,8 millions considering the whole urbanised area, as represented by the Province of Rome).
		Capital of the Lazio region of central-eastern Italy, Rome is located across the confuence of the river Aniene into the Tiber.
		Rome is currently a comune, as well as the seat of the Regione Lazio (one of the twenty regions of Italy) and of the Province of Rome (one of the five provinces of the Lazio region).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rome (4850 words)

	Some data about the province of Agrigento
		Equally devoid it is the situation of the ports: the services for the lack the goodses lack, al well as taken of fuel and of drinkable water, no shuttle buses are available for the traffic of the tourists who use the ferries.
		The tourist flows towards the province is increasinge since some years.
		A global overview of the enterprises in the province of Agrigento is reported in the following table:
	sicilia.indettaglio.it /eng/provincie/ag/cifreag.html (264 words)

	Agrigento Hotels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the heart of the business centre of Agrigento, just a few steps from the Valle dei Templi and the city the centre, it is a modern and elegant hotel with refined furniture, ideal for both business and leisure clientele.
		The hotel Amici is situated in an ideal position in the heart of Agrigento, just a few steps from the historical centre, from the beach and from all major attractions of the town like the famous Valle dei Templi.
		The Hotel Villa Romana, set in a very nice bay in one of the beautiful beaches of the Sicily, in the southern coast; to little distance from the charming "Turkish Steps", to little kilometres from the house was born Luigi Pirandello and from the famous one "valley of the Temples" of Agrigento.
	www.sicilyhotels.com /agrigento_hotels.cfm (478 words)

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