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Piazza Duomo

Duomo Daily 8am–noon & 4–7pm

Piazza Armerina’s best views are from the terrace of Piazza Duomo, at the very top
of town. The town’s elegant seventeenth-century Duomo has a marvellously cool,
blue-and-white stuccoed interior accessible through the small green door on the Via
Cavour side of the building. Across from the cathedral campanile, and its blind

Catalan-Gothic windows, stands the spruce facade of the eighteenth-century Palazzo
Trigona, its simple brick exterior crowned by a spread-eagle plaque.

Castellina

The Castellina quarter, off Via Mazzini, is a fascinating area to explore, with steep
residential alleys dropping down to the Porta Castellina, a surviving part of the
medieval town wall – with a rough arch hacked through it for traffic access. From
pretty Piazza Garibaldi, Via Mazzini, Via Garibaldi and Via Umberto I are the main
old-town shopping streets, all leading eventually to the large twin squares that

separate old town from new, with the Giardino Garibaldi gardens beyond.