Menfi is a ''
comune
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'' (municipality) in the
Province of Agrigento in the
Italian region
Sicily
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, located about southwest of
Palermo
Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province. The city is noted for its ...
and about northwest of
Agrigento
Agrigento (; scn, Girgenti or ; grc, Ἀκράγας, translit=Akrágas; la, Agrigentum or ; ar, كركنت, Kirkant, or ''Jirjant'') is a city on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy and capital of the province of Agrigento. It was one o ...
.
The town lies some from the south coast of Sicily, between the rivers
Belice
The Belice, , is a river of western Sicily. It is about long. From its main source near Piana degli Albanesi it runs south and west for as the Belice Destro ("right Belice") until it is joined near Poggioreale by its secondary branch, the B ...
and
Carboj. In 1910, a full third of the population of the town of Menfi had emigrated to the United States.
Main sights
*A tower (''Torre Federiciana''), which is the remains of a medieval castle built by
Frederick II of Hohenstaufen in 1238, perhaps over an Arab fortification.
*''Chiesa Madre'' ("Mother Church"), built in the 18th century but destroyed by an earthquake in 1968. It was later rebuilt.
*Church of St. Joseph (1715).
The remains of an
Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of the prehistory and protohistory of humanity. It was preceded by the Stone Age ( Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic) and the Bronze Age ( Chalcolithic). The concept has been mostly ...
prehistoric settlement were found in the 1980s outside of the town.
Twin towns
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Canelli, Italy, since 1997
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Chivilcoy, Argentina, since 1999
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Ettlingen, Germany, since 2004
References
External links
ScopriMenfi, Menfi's Tourism web siteOfficial website*
Cities and towns in Sicily
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