Leonforte Attractions
Location
Leonforte lies 13km/8mi northeast of Enna (on the SS 121). The small town was founded in the 17th century by the Prince Nicolò Placido Branciforte, and this explains the Baroque character of many of its buildings.
Leonforte lies 13km/8mi northeast of Enna (on the SS 121). The small town was founded in the 17th century by the Prince Nicolò Placido Branciforte, and this explains the Baroque character of many of its buildings.
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Granfontana
Apart from "La Matricia", the Church of the mother of San Giovanni Battista and the Branciforte Palace of 1620, the Granfontana should be mentioned. This monumental cattle trough was built on the edge of the town in 1651 on the initiative of the town's founder. Under a wall of arcades, on which rest several boldly designed gables, the water pours out of 24 ducts into the bowl - "a magnificent example of an artistic solution to a practical problem in the Sicilian Baroque style"(Krånig).
