How to get to Agrigento

How long it takes to get to Agrigento by car. All drive times are relative to Agrigento and represent the total time it would take along that route. (So from Siracusa via Catania is 3 hr.; via Ragusa it's closer to 4 hr.) (Map courtesy of Google Maps)

Arriving in Agrigento by train, bus, or car

Agrigento is on the southern coast of Sicily, roughly in the middle, just off Sicily's southern coastal route, the SS115, which—if you are driving the classic ring around Sicily—you can follow from Castelvetrano near Selinute or from Siracusa.

If you are not driving, the best way to get there is by bus. (Unless you're coming from Palermo, in which case the train is faster.)

» Jump down to Agrigento city layout and transport hubs (train stations and bus depot). The closest airport is in Palermo, 127km (79 miles) to the north.

Agrigento city layout

The current city of Agrigento perches atop a hill overlooking the Valley of Temples (site of the ancient city—and, hence, all the major sights) to the Mediterranean Sea beyond.

The main temples are about 3.3km (2 miles) down from the train station, which is just south of and below the tree-shaded main square, Piazzale A. Moro. (The bus station is just north of and above that main square.)

How to get from downtown Agrigento to the Temples: City buses 1, 1/, 2, 2/, 3, and 3/ all run from the center of Agrigento down to the Valle dei Templi. A taxi will run about €15. Otherwise, it's a dull half-hour walk with little to no shade from the brutal Siclian sun. » more

[Incidentally, the vista of the temple ridge with the sea beyond, once one of Italy's most breathtaking sights from the city, has been despoiled in recent decades by some 600 concrete condominium monstrosities creeping up from the side, erected entirely illegally under the aegis of the mafia. In fact, this is a good palapable example of the Cosa Nostra's continuing stranglehold over Sicily; these affronts to aesthetics and the law remain despite their flagrant violation of zoning codes in a land so corrupt that no official has the guts to bulldoze the things.]

Agrigento train station

The Agrigento centrale train station (tel. +39-0922-26-669) is on Piazza Marconi, just down the steps from Agrigento's central Piazzale A. Moro.

» Do not get off at the suburban train station, Agrigento Bassa.

Agrigento bus depot

Agrigento's main bus station is on Piazzale Fratelli Rosselli, just above Piazzale A. Moro and Piazza V. Emanuele.

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