Caltagirone

By bus

• Bus station

  address: across the train station on Viale Sicilia
  Regular buses run from Piazza Armerina, Enna and Catania

By train

• Stazione di CaltagironeLocal trains run from Gela and Catania.

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.

• La Scala - the famous 142 steps 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.

• Museo Regionale della Ceramica

  phone: +39 933 58418
  address: Via Roma "Teatrino del Bonaiuto"
  More than 2500 pieces of ceramic on display; the architecture is also impressive

• Museo della ceramica contemporanea

  phone: +39 933 57963
  address: Palazzo Reburdone, Via Abate Meli, 3

• MACC Museo d’Arte Contemporanea

  phone: +39 933 21083
  address: Via Luigi Sturzo, 167
  Contemporary art with a focus on ceramics

• Museo Civico al Carcere Borbonico

  phone: +39 933 31590
  address: Via Roma, 10
  Archeological findings, city history and a painting collection

• Museo Etnologico SicilianoFound in a former church, showing a collection of everyday objects

• Museo Internazionale del Presepe

  phone: +39 933 53754
  address: Largo S. Luigi, 2

• Museo Civico delle Ville Storiche Caltagironesi e Siciliane, Villa Patti

  phone: +39 933 41810
  address: Via S.Maria del Gesù

• Ceramics of course. From one of the many shops lining La Scala. Specifically suggested is to see the Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art realized inside the beautiful Palazzo Ceramico. Located aside the monumental "Scala SS. Maria del Monte" it's a concentration of typical Sicilian food and ceramic articles of more than 20 exhibitors. Remarkable is the permanent show of sicilian muppets of the "Antico Teatro dei Pupi Siciliani". Inside there are available all the principal services you would need (WC, Internet connection, etc.)

• marcellino seminara

  address: via e. de amicis, 24

• Vecchia Masseria

  phone: +39 0935 684003
  address: C/da Cutuminello Km 68 S.S. 117 bis direzione Gela
  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.

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