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Antica Foresteria Catalana - Agrigento, Italy  Category: Hotel *** Address: Piazza Lena 5 - Agrigento, Italy Description: Antica Foresteria Catalana is located in the historical centre, near the Cathedral and the Pirandello Theatre. Are selected in the guide 'Routard' - 'Michelin' - 'Travel and flavors 2005.' During the theater season the hotel is popular with many theater companies, hosting the major Italian artists. Completely renovated offering hospitality in comfortable rooms and elegant. The rooms are a perfect blend of tradition and innovation: a tastefully chosen furniture, antique furniture with modern comforts like air conditioning, telephone and TV. Essential step for those who want to know the Magna Grecia, set course for pilgrims of the Western mind, votive place dear to philosopher who sought the knowledge even within the volcanoes, Agrigento is the meeting point of all the civilizations that have influenced the scene outside and interior of Sicily and its proud inhabitants. The Valley of the Temples is the best known and most praised in Agrigento: the monuments that stand out are what is left of the ancient city of Akragas was founded in the sixth century. B.C. by colonists from Gela and became in the space of about a hundred years 'the most beautiful city of mortals'. Destroyed by the Carthaginians in 406, was refounded by Timoleon in 340 BC new and experienced moments of brilliance, but inevitably By booting the decline, with the advent of the Byzantines definitively. The ancient city was abandoned in the ninth century. after the Arab conquest, and the urban core shrank on a hill above. Passed to the Normans, the city was named the diocese and was embellished with numerous churches. Buildings and monuments continued to rise even between the fourteenth and the fifteenth century and again in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The most famous and popular bathing beach is undoubtedly one of San Leone. Miles of beaches and fine sand. Lovely walk among the towering palms of the promenade dedicated to judges Falcone and Borsellino. The Lido has a marina where boats can dock small and medium size. PICTURES
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