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Scicli – Palazzo Beneventano loop from Scicli
01:14
4.43km
80m
Hiking
Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: April 13, 2026
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Start point
Train Station
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1
769 m
Piazza Italia
Highlight • Settlement
Shady seating, café and a good bakery available.
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916 m
Mother Church of San Guglielmo
Highlight • Religious Site
Beautiful, majestic cathedral stands in Piazza Italia. The Madonna delle Milizie is the patron saint of Scicli, together with San Guglielmo.
In fact, a characteristic of the church is to have the only example in the world of the Virgin Mary on horseback armed as a crowned warrior. In fact, in Scicli the Madonna delle Milizie is venerated.
The Feast of the Madonna delle Milizie is held on the last Saturday of May.
According to legendary history, the Madonna intervened to save the Christians in battle against the "Turkish" invaders who landed on the coast of Donnalucata, a seaside village of Scicli.
The “Maronna re Mulici” is celebrated with a large and spectacular party. The costume performance was also told by the writer Elio Vittorini in The Red Carnation, and was included in the register of Intangible Heritage protected by UNESCO.
In fact, a characteristic of the church is to have the only example in the world of the Virgin Mary on horseback armed as a crowned warrior. In fact, in Scicli the Madonna delle Milizie is venerated.
The Feast of the Madonna delle Milizie is held on the last Saturday of May.
According to legendary history, the Madonna intervened to save the Christians in battle against the "Turkish" invaders who landed on the coast of Donnalucata, a seaside village of Scicli.
The “Maronna re Mulici” is celebrated with a large and spectacular party. The costume performance was also told by the writer Elio Vittorini in The Red Carnation, and was included in the register of Intangible Heritage protected by UNESCO.
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1.07 km
Scicli
Highlight • Settlement
The town lies at an altitude of 106 m s.l.m. and 25 km south of Ragusa. The districts are Donnalucata, Scicli, Sampieri and Cava d'Aliga. The neighboring municipalities are Modica and Ragusa.
The place was founded by the Sikelers. In the Middle Ages it came under Arab rule until it developed into a royal city under the Normans. Under Frederick II the town was owned by the Counts of Modica. In 1693 the town was destroyed by an earthquake, as was the entire Val di Noto. It was then rebuilt in the Sicilian Baroque style.
The place was founded by the Sikelers. In the Middle Ages it came under Arab rule until it developed into a royal city under the Normans. Under Frederick II the town was owned by the Counts of Modica. In 1693 the town was destroyed by an earthquake, as was the entire Val di Noto. It was then rebuilt in the Sicilian Baroque style.
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1.21 km
Church of Saint Michael the Archangel
Highlight • Religious Site
It is one of the oldest churches in the current city of Scicli, rebuilt after the earthquake of 1693 under concession from the Confrati of the church of San Michele Arcangelo to the Augustinian nuns.
The reconstruction works, begun in the second half of the eighteenth century by the Syracusan architect Michelangelo Alessi, concluded in 1859 under the guidance of the architect Giuseppe Far» Palermo.
The main façade has three orders, with a slightly convex surface enlivened by free columns with Corinthian capitals which, in the first order, flank the main portal surmounted by a heraldic shield; in the second order, a window enriched with floral motifs and closed by a wrought iron window.
The third order denotes a neoclassical architecture characterized by a triangular tympanum that concludes the facade and by flat pilaster strips with Corinthian capitals that replace the columns and frame the belfry decorated with festoons.
Of extreme interest is the solution given to the side portal of via F.
Mormina Penna as the architect having to deal with a small space resorts to illusionistic effects.
The interior is an extraordinary jewel of art and there is no shortage of stuccos, frescoes, paintings, sculptures, decorations reproducing musical instruments in relief, called "musical choirs".
The colors and stuccos of the whole are not those originating from the eighteenth century but the work of the sculptor Giuseppe Sesta Poliziano in
1851.
On the curved surface there are four altars on which are placed paintings depicting St. Augustine, St. Michael the Archangel, the Adoration of the Magi to Baby Jesus and an oval depicting the Madonna delle Grazie and finally a wooden crucifix dating back to the fourteenth century.
On the vault there are paintings from the second half of the century
XIX depicting episodes from the life of St. Augustine by Gaetano
Of Stefano.
In the sacristy, precious remains of Christian Saints and Martyrs are preserved in an artistic reliquary.
The reconstruction works, begun in the second half of the eighteenth century by the Syracusan architect Michelangelo Alessi, concluded in 1859 under the guidance of the architect Giuseppe Far» Palermo.
The main façade has three orders, with a slightly convex surface enlivened by free columns with Corinthian capitals which, in the first order, flank the main portal surmounted by a heraldic shield; in the second order, a window enriched with floral motifs and closed by a wrought iron window.
The third order denotes a neoclassical architecture characterized by a triangular tympanum that concludes the facade and by flat pilaster strips with Corinthian capitals that replace the columns and frame the belfry decorated with festoons.
Of extreme interest is the solution given to the side portal of via F.
Mormina Penna as the architect having to deal with a small space resorts to illusionistic effects.
The interior is an extraordinary jewel of art and there is no shortage of stuccos, frescoes, paintings, sculptures, decorations reproducing musical instruments in relief, called "musical choirs".
The colors and stuccos of the whole are not those originating from the eighteenth century but the work of the sculptor Giuseppe Sesta Poliziano in
1851.
On the curved surface there are four altars on which are placed paintings depicting St. Augustine, St. Michael the Archangel, the Adoration of the Magi to Baby Jesus and an oval depicting the Madonna delle Grazie and finally a wooden crucifix dating back to the fourteenth century.
On the vault there are paintings from the second half of the century
XIX depicting episodes from the life of St. Augustine by Gaetano
Of Stefano.
In the sacristy, precious remains of Christian Saints and Martyrs are preserved in an artistic reliquary.
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2.53 km
San Matteo Church
Highlight • Religious Site
Completely rebuilt in Baroque style after the devastating earthquake of 1693, this enormous and monumental church stands on the plateau created at the top of the hill where ancient Scicli developed. From up here the view is fantastic, with a magnificent view that reaches all the way to the sea. Despite the reconstruction, unfortunate human decisions meant that it was abandoned in 1874 and, to underline the irrevocability of the choice, its roof was even dismantled. The building, which is said to be the oldest church in the city, has no longer been consecrated since it was abandoned and nowadays - after the modern reconstruction of the roof - it is used as a location for cultural events or a warehouse.
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2.77 km
Church of the Chain
Highlight • Religious Site
Beautiful little church carved into the rock, now closed and there are no signs
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2.90 km
Palazzo Beneventano
Highlight • Historical Site
Registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as a "masterpiece of the human creative genius of the late Baroque age" and defined by the art historian Anthony Blunt as "one of the most significant and original eighteenth-century baroque monuments in the province of Ragusa", Palazzo Beneventano it is the most representative baroque building in the city and among the most celebrated examples of "fantastic decoration". Pompous and refined at the same time, it has no main facade. Built on a corner, its central element is a corner with ashlar and diamond-cut pilasters which links two elegant facades decorated with masks, sculpted portals and balconies supported by brackets with grotesque figures. Above, under the cornice, the Beneventano coat of arms supported by two dark brown heads.
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3.11 km
Church of San Bartolomeo
Highlight • Religious Site
One of the fantastic examples of the Baroque style in Sicily.
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4.43 km
End point
Train Station
Way Types & Surfaces
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1.76 km
1.68 km
949 m
Surfaces
3.97 km
260 m
131 m
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