Gangi

Abandoned houses on sale for one euro put Gangi in the headlines, drawing buyers from abroad. The town climbs Monte Marone in the Madonie, its steep lanes and stairways rising to the mother church of San Nicolò, whose bell tower was once the Ventimiglia family's tower. Beneath the church, a crypt holds a hundred mummified priests, which the artist Escher drew after visiting in 1932.

Highlights

• The crypt of the priests, with mummified clergy in standing niches
• San Nicolò, with a Last Judgement by Giuseppe Salerno
• Palazzo Bongiorno, its 18th-century frescoes full of Masonic symbols
• Santa Maria del Gesù, with sculptures by local artist Filippo Quattrocchi
• The Abbey of Gangivecchio, on the site of the original village

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