Museums Sicily

Giovanni Verga House
Catania - Catania


Giovanni Verga was a great writer who portrayed Sicily in its raw, generous and tragic aspects as he saw it, and experienced it, from his lucid, attentive and critical point of view.The reality of the sciara, the mine of the unfortunate Rosso Malpelo, the wild and diabolical beauty of the ...

Birthplace of Luigi Pirandello
Agrigento - Agrigento


The great Sicilian writer,who was born on 28 June 1867 in Contrada Caos, Agrigento, and died in 1936 in Rome, made enormous artistic, philosophical and literary contributions to the entire world and was significant in spreading knowledge about his region of birth.Recipient of a Nobel Prize in 1934, he was ...

Regional Museum of Messina
Messina - Messina


The museum is well presented and arranged according to criteria that favour the historical-chronological view of the display.The exhibited works are by illustrious local artists (and others), such as Antonello da Messina who presented the beauty of the city by the Straight to the rest of the world through ...