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Area archeologica di Akrai
The park includes the theatre, the latomie and with a different entrance (based on the times indicated at the ticket office) also the visit to the Santoni.
Teatro di Akrai
The Greek theatre dates back to between the 3rd and 2nd century BC. It is of modest size and is now used for youth performances during the INDA Festival which is held every year. It was discovered in 1824 by Baron Gabriele Judica together with the bouleterion.
The bouleterion was a room where representatives of the boulé met to make decisions related to the management of the polis.
Ipogeo paleocristiano
The area where the hypogeum stands is called latomia, that is, a stone quarry like those found in Syracuse. The latomie then became a place of worship and were crossed by a sacred way due to the presence of pinakes (squares dug into the rock walls). The early Christian hypogeum features pit tombs with arcosolium separations. A style found only in the Syracuse area.
The Santoni are stone statues dated around the 4th-3rd century BC that represent different figures connected to the cult of Cybele for which there was an important sanctuary. The cult is one of the only examples in Sicily having originated in Asia Minor. Today there are twelve sculptures carved in a very poor state of conservation after a probable violent destruction. In the 18th century they were drawn by the traveller Jean Houel who found them already in a very poor state but more legible than today.
Casa Museo Antonino Uccello
Located in the eighteenth-century Ferla-Bonelli palace, the anthropological museum is dedicated to Antonino Uccello, an ethno-anthropologist who for years collected a lot of material related to Sicilian and peasant traditions. These have been brought together in this small regional museum that recalls their value and memory.