Val di Kam
"Val di Kam" S. Angelo Muxaro (1,400 inhabitants in the province of Agrigento). Underground has a network of caves (about 100), some of which are linked to pure streams of water which, following the mysterious paths, go to fuel the Platani that here at the mouth of Eraclea Minoa, silent and slow slip through canyon a harsh and unspoiled beauty. In such scenario unique is the initiative of young members who appear to have clear ideas and thought and the view acute carve a space tourism market in the so-called "niche". It already starting to get the tourists from various parts of Italy and Sicily, and even from distant countries, especially from Holland and Germany.
Routes and resources available from the famous tomb of Prince Sicano mountain fortress of the Castle, by nature trekking through the woods and countryside, excursions speleologiche inside the magnificent caves included in the "Cave Reserve integral S. Angelo Muxaro" horseback riding nearby, along the Platani or until the valley of the Temples in Agrigento, hiking in mountain biking and quad-bike for the younger, shorter stays at farms and pastoral where you can share the experience of work and food genuine.
Legends and mysteries of the past still unknown evoke great tragedies and events that marked the beginnings of modern civilization. Such as that tells the tragic death of Minos from Crete who came to S. Angelo Muxaro then Kamico to capture the fugitive Dedalo that he was a refugee at the court of King Sicano Kokalos for which he built an impregnable fortress, whose ruins can still be admired on the top of the mountain castle.
A turbulent journey in the heart of the Mediterranean, the sumptuous palace of Knossos on Kamico, in the arid heart of Sicily, to punish the traitor who-according to the story of Diodorus Siculus (quoted by G. Alessi and I. Vaccaro) - would have produced an artificial form of a cow within which hid Pasifae, wife of Minos, to make it match with the magnificent bull that the Cretan king had clumsily removed to sacrifice in honor of Poseidon. From such an unnatural union was born the Minotaur ...
Kocalos, fearing the colonialist ambitions of Crete, Minos did choke between the vapors of a murderess bath, delivering the body to guard the Cretan buried on the beach near the mouth of Platani, where, precisely, a 'Eraclea named in his honor Minoa ...
Not matter whether true or invented, the importance of this is legend In recalling names and places really fatal, of bizarre conjunctions between human passions and divine vengeance that-according to several historians of antiquity-had their tragic epilogue to Kamico that many identify with the current site of St. Angelo Muxaro. And then, well try it, there is always a truth in the depths of myth.
Visit this' is a pleasant town like turning a great history book: each chapter corresponds to a time ...