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Caltagirone is a town in central Sicily, Italy, most famous for it's ceramics and long ceramic-decorated staircase.

[edit] Get in

[edit] By bus

Regular buses run to and from Piazza Armerina, Enna and Catania

[edit] By train

Local trains run to and from Gela and Catania.

[edit] Get around

The adjacent train & bus stations are in the new town about 20 minutes walk from the centre of the old town. Some buses may also stop in the old town.

There are a few connecting buses linking the old and new towns. Alternatively, you could take a taxi or walk.

[edit][add listing] See

• La Scala - the famous 142 step staircase up to Santa Maria church, with each stair riser decorated with different ceramic tiles. Good views from the top.
• St Francis Bridge (Ponte San Francesco) - an impressive ceramic tile decorated bridge at the entrance to the old town.

[edit][add listing] Do

[edit][add listing] Buy

• Ceramics of course. From one of the many shops lining La Scala.

[edit][add listing] Eat

[edit][add listing] Drink

[edit][add listing] Sleep

• Vecchia Masseria (Agriturismo Caltagirone), C/da Cutuminello Km 68 S.S. 117 bis direzione Gela (Gela), ☎ +39 0935 684003, [1]. checkin: 12.00; checkout: 11.00. The farmhouse, 3 Ears, use of a receptiveness of 56 places bed in double rooms, apartments and a suite, endowed with all the comforts: bathe in room, conditioned air, heating, tv, and in some apartment also angle cooking and angle living; you furnish in poor art, beaten iron, cooked and ancient cerammics make the comforting and refined structure. €40 - €70 in b&b. (37°15'21.42,14°24'2.41) edit

[edit] Get out

• The bus ride to Piazza Armerina gives a good view of Sicily's rugged interior and views across to Mount Etna.