Ciminna is a town of great cultural identity with an inestimable heritage, where culture and spirituality are harmoniously intertwined, which, through its places, evokes emotions and suggestions with its historical and cultural heritage. Churches, votive shrines, fountains and squares are the rich artistic and monumental heritage that embellishes the town. There are many works and monuments signed by prestigious sculptors and painters, both foreign and local. Monuments and works that represent something special for the rarity and quality of the works, which live and tell us our history every day.
The characteristic historic center offers a suggestive itinerary through which intertwine narrow streets, closed and tortuous alleys, arches, patronal palaces, houses and numerous churches.
“The first question that arises in the history of a town is certainly that of its origin. But it cannot always be resolved with certainty, since most towns have their origins shrouded in the darkness of the past”. With these lines, the historian from Ciminna, Dr. Vito Graziano (1864 – 1942), begins to talk about his native town in the book “Ciminna, Memorie e Documenti”, attempting to shed light on the town’s foundation up to the period in which he lived.
GATTOPARDO AWARDS
Every year, Gattopardo Award enlivens the summer in Ciminna with the aim of promoting and enhancing Ciminna in all its aspects and of bringing the whole world to the places of Luchino Visconti’s masterpiece “The Leopard”, also filmed in our splendid town, attracting leading personalities in the national panorama of culture, art and cinema, also with a view to encouraging film companies and directors to invest in our town to continue to be a film set. The evening is also an opportunity to reward some “Ciminnesi” who have distinguished themselves in the past and in the present, in the world of work, social, artistic and cultural.
