Cefalu


Cefalu is 20 km from Camping Lo Scoglio and it is an international tourist center, famous all over the world. The site on which it stands Cefalu was already inhabited in pre-Hellenic age, as documented by the many discoveries…

The population maintained close contact with the Greeks of eastern Sicily and with the Phoenicians of Western Sicily. In 254 a.c. It became Roman city. In 1063 It was conquered by the Normans, the period of the commencement of great splendor.

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Among the most important attractions: the town park, the walls of megalithic structure, the Church of the Chain, Osterio Magno (fortified building of great architectural dignity, Perhaps Norman), the former convent of Santa Caterina, the Oratorio del Sacramento, the eighteenth-century bishop's palace, the dome, the church of the Purgatory, the medieval wash, the temple of Diana.

Recommended excursions are close to the Franciscan sanctuary of Gibilmanna, the Madonie and the Nebrodi, the Aeolian islands, a Solunto, Palermo and Monreale.