Pantálica - Necropolis

Well-maintained and signposted paths lead the visitor to the burial caves, the oldest of which date from c. 1270 B.C. and the latest from the eighth century B.C., before the nearby town surrendered to the Siculi. The oldest parts of the necropolis (12th-10th centuries B.C.) lie in the north and northwest and the most recent - Necropoli di Filiporto and Necropoli della Cavetta, ninth-eighth centuries B.C. - in the south. For many hundreds of years after 730 B.C. the caves remained deserted and neglected. In the Early Christian period some were used as dwellings and a few made into chapels.

The settlement linked to this necropolis, the capital of the Siculi people, lay in the midst of the individual cemeteries on a limestone plateau