The Andromeda theater is one of the most evocative places you will ever visit in Sicily. It is a Roman amphitheater reinterpreted in a modern key, with a cantilevered panorama over the valleys below and the Sicani mountains. I recommend visiting it at sunset. Entrance with ticket (10 euros)
From the vision of an artist born a shepherd, a monumental work originated in the Sicani mountains, an open-air theater that has the shape of a sheepfold and the name of a constellation and which today attracts visitors from all over the world.
INVITATION TO TRAVEL
You are welcome. Call me by name which here we also call God by name. My father wanted me to be a shepherd but I wanted to be a poet, so I spent my childhood among sheep and dogs and only one book. At night I sculpted alabasters in a stable where other shepherds rested: "Go to sleep, let us sleep" they shouted between curses. But I didn't listen to them, I continued to sculpt in the light of a piece of cloth immersed in the pot, and when my nostrils filled with dust and smoke I went out to breathe under the stars.
One night I asked heaven to never let me get enough of my art and I was listened to. Many of you ask me how the idea of the theater was born. It is written that
"the Spirit, like the wind, blows where it wants" and at the end of 1970 it blew here, on this hill where I took the sheep to ruminate in peace.
They spoke to me, they said that good spirits live in this place and therefore I decided to build a stone theater here. Many years later, I learned that the M31 Galaxy of the Andromeda Constellation will merge with our Galaxy in about four and a half billion years and I began to raise a sacred fence to the 108 visible stars of the Andromeda Constellation. Now "Let the wind speak. This is Paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have built" (E.P.).
Sit on a star and look at the earth. This is not a theater... but a spaceship traveling to the Andromeda Galaxy.