Enchanted Castle of Sciacca - Museum Tickets

Place of indescribable atmosphere, it’s the “Enchanted Castle”, a museum-garden where there are thousands of sculptures realized by Filippo Bentivegna, a real artist endowed by an excellent creativity, one of the greatest exponents of “art brut” or “outside art”, unique of its kind. In the western side of Sicily, at the slopes of Mount Kronio, not far from Sciacca, there is the “Enchanted Castle”, that is a wonderful place invented by the creativity of man and nature where, besides olives and almond trees, you can find heads engraved in stone by Filippo Bentivegna, called “Philip of the heads”, a real artist endowed by an excellent creativity, one of the greatest exponents of “art brut” or “outside art”.

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   Il Castello Incantato

   Taking a walk inside the garden you can see many heads carved in stone and tree trunks, today there are about 3,000. Some sculptures are isolated others are piled up in tangle, walled in the shape of pyramids, others arranged in an amphitheatre.

• Wheelchair accessible
• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Service animals allowed
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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