Funeral caves

At the first houses of Caltabellotta you have to make the first stop: on the rock, which is located to the left of the road, there is a series of funeral caves carved into the stone, evidence of the Sican period that suggests a settlement of a large community since prehistoric times. Countless necropolis of every age surround Caltabellotta, were also identified 4 Astronomical Solar Calendars (called “pirciate “stones), attributable to the Prehistoric Age of Neolithic, Sikani and Ancient Bronze. Recent excavations on Mount Gulèa, on the western suburbs of the village, attest that in the Protohistoric Age a settlement was formed which gave life to the city of Inycon, but around the 13th century BC. C. Daedalus, escaped from Crete and sheltered near the Sikani, built for the king-pastor Kokalos the fortress of Kàmikos on the plateau of Mount Gogàla. Flourishing sicana village, in the VI sec. a. C. the Greeks changed its name to Triokala (gr. Ta Tria Kala - Three Beautiful Things: Impregnable Fortress, Abundance of Water, Fertility of the Soil).At the first houses of Caltabellotta you have to make the first stop: on the rock, which is located to the left of the road, there is a series of funeral caves carved into the stone, evidence of the Sican period that suggests a settlement of a large community since prehistoric times. Countless necropolis of every age surround Caltabellotta, were also identified 4 Astronomical Solar Calendars (called “pirciate “stones), attributable to the Prehistoric Age of Neolithic, Sikani and Ancient Bronze. Recent excavations on Mount Gulèa, on the western suburbs of the village, attest that in the Protohistoric Age a settlement was formed which gave life to the city of Inycon, but around the 13th century BC. C. Daedalus, escaped from Crete and sheltered near the Sikani, built for the king-pastor Kokalos the fortress of Kàmikos on the plateau of Mount Gogàla. Flourishing sicana village, in the VI sec. a. C. the Greeks changed its name to Triokala (gr. Ta Tria Kala - Three Beautiful Things: Impregnable Fortress, Abundance of Water, Fertility of the Soil).At the first houses of Caltabellotta you have to make the first stop: on the rock, which is located to the left of the road, there is a series of funeral caves carved into the stone, evidence of the Sican period that suggests a settlement of a large community since prehistoric times. Countless necropolis of every age surround Caltabellotta, were also identified 4 Astronomical Solar Calendars (called “pirciate “stones), attributable to the Prehistoric Age of Neolithic, Sikani and Ancient Bronze. Recent excavations on Mount Gulèa, on the western suburbs of the village, attest that in the Protohistoric Age a settlement was formed which gave life to the city of Inycon, but around the 13th century BC. C. Daedalus, escaped from Crete and sheltered near the Sikani, built for the king-pastor Kokalos the fortress of Kàmikos on the plateau of Mount Gogàla. Flourishing sicana city, in the VI sec. a. C. the Greeks changed its name to Triokala (gr. Ta Tria Kala - Three Beautiful Things: Impregnable Fortress, Abundance of Water, Fertility of the Soil).