Agira: Mount Etna
Agira straddles a hill ridge in central Sicily, a position that has shaped it into a lookout over the island's broad interior. To the east rises Mount Etna, Europe's highest active volcano and the dominant geological landmark of eastern Sicily. The town occupies the site of ancient Agyrium, an important Sicel and later Greek settlement; the first-century-BC historian Diodorus Siculus was born here. Its medieval core climbs toward the ruins of Agira Castle, a fortification associated with Sicily's Norman period. Beyond the built-up slopes, fields, groves and low hills lead toward the Etna massif, placing Agira between Enna's agricultural heartland and the volcanic east.
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The landscape around Agira is hilly, dry and distinctly inland, which has shaped both the town’s compact form and its farming economy. Set in Sicily’s province of Enna, Agira occupies the slopes of Monte Teja above the Salso valley, in a territory of grain fields, olive groves and broad reservoir country. Lake Pozzillo, formed by a dam on the Salso River, lies nearby. In antiquity the settlement was known as Agyrion; the historian Diodorus Siculus is traditionally identified as its native son. Above the streets stand the remains of the medieval castle, while churches and stone houses trace the town’s long continuity. Continue with other webcams from the area to see how this part of central Sicily connects regionally.
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