Holiday apartment in Cinisi – coast, culture and local specialities

Cinisi combines extensive mountains and hills with a fertile plain stretching to the southern Tyrrhenian coast. At Spiaggia di Magaggiari, Cinisi’s sandy coastline extends for about two kilometres. When choosing your holiday apartment in Cinisi, you can focus on the coast, culture or rural landscapes.

Coast, hills and a route into the Furi Valley

Spiaggia di Magaggiari is associated with surfing as a local activity. Via an old Regia trazzera leading from Cinisi through the Furi Valley, you can reach Piano Margi. An old, unique cattle trough with two basins has been preserved there; it belonged to an archaeological military site dating from the time of the First Punic War. The coast and hills thus give Cinisi two clearly recognisable landscape themes.

Memorial culture and literary traces

Casa Memoria Felicia e Peppino Impastato was established in spring 2005 to spread the truth and demand justice in response to Mafia violence. The memorial route I cento passi uses memorial stones to symbolically trace the hundred steps between Peppino Impastato’s house, now Casa Memoria, and the former Casa Badalamenti. The former Casa Badalamenti houses the Biblioteca Comunale di Cinisi “Francesco Paolo Abbate”. The Sicilian poet Giovanni Meli spent five years at the Casa di Giovanni Meli in Cinisi.

Church art and hidden spaces

The Chiesa Madre, dedicated to Santa Fara, has a main-altar antependium made of coral, lapis lazuli and onyx, created by the Trapani school in the 18th century. The crypts of the 18th-century Chiesa Madre di Santa Fara form a necropolis that contained 15,000 human remains. The Chiesa delle Anime Sante preserves two large paintings attributed to the school of Zoppo di Gangi. The Chiesa del SS. Sacramento was built in 1767 by the brotherhood of the same name and has crypts. Tours of the crypts can be arranged on request through the InfoPoint in the Palazzo dei Benedettini.

Historical symbols and Sicilian flavours

Giacomo Randazzo’s movable nativity scene is located in Cinisi’s town hall and is listed in the R.E.I. as UNESCO cultural heritage. Tonnara dell'Orsa includes a 16th-century watchtower; the site is associated with a historic tuna fishery. The rural and religious traditions of Cinisi included a particularly strong devotion to Santo Isidoro, the patron saint of farmers and shepherds.

Between Piano Margi and Piano Tavole, you may come across a mannara. Fresh ricotta is made there and tasted warm on site; caciocavallo and Sicilian pecorino are also produced. For a holiday combining different interests, Cinisi brings together coast, memorial culture, churches, landscapes and regional products. Choose a holiday apartment in Cinisi according to the focus you want to give your days: Magaggiari for the coast, the historic sites for culture and Piano Margi for rural impressions.

Further destinations for your planning: Monreale, Cefalù, San Giuseppe Jato, Godrano, Roccapalumba, Palermo, Ventimiglia Di Sicilia and Alia.

To the higher-level travel overview: Palermo.