Augusta (Sicily): what to see


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What to see in Augusta, one day itinerary including the main monuments and places of interest, including Castello Svevo, Palazzo Comunale and Museo della Piazzaforte.


Tourist information

Founded in the early 1200s by Frederick II of Swabia, who had considered the geographic position within a gulf to be very important from a strategic point of view, Augusta is a town in Sicily joined to the hinterland by two artificial bridges, port military and commercial among the most important in Italy.

Only the castle remains of the ancient city, which consists of a small fortress, with a tower for each of the four corners and an imposing city wall, added to the main building between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.


Between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Swabian Castle of Augusta was used as a prison.

What see

The main places to visit include the Palazzo Comunale and the Duomo, the latter built between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Of particular interest is the Museum of the Piazzaforte, established by the Municipality of Augusta in 1986 and housed in the premises of the Bastion of San Giacomo, south-west of the Swabian Castle and open to the public on February 16, 1990.

In the first room there is a collection of ceramic and stone artifacts from the Swabian Castle, including numerous catapult balls, as well as iron balls, stone materials from the Spanish period and some ancient weapons.

Augusta Sicily Sicilia Sizilien 12.10.2015 (February 2024)


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