Avola
Home of the almond and the wine
- Type
- Towns
- As the crow flies
- 3 km
- Direction
- south-east
Destroyed by the 1693 earthquake and rebuilt at the will of prince Nicolò Aragona Pignatelli, Avola today has a hexagonal plan unlike any other.
Its name is tied to two products known worldwide: the Pizzuta almond, which gives local pastry its reputation, and Nero d’Avola, the grape born in this area.
Behind the town opens the Cava Grande del Cassibile, a natural canyon running from the Iblean plateau down to the coastal plain. It is among the largest in the Iblei and holds many rock cut tombs of the Cassibile necropolis.
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