Piazza Armerina is a city of art and culture, world famous for the Roman mosaics of the Villa del Casale.

Has a beautiful baroque old town where stands the cathedral, which occupies the highest position, and all around the oldest part, characterized by medieval streets and beautiful Renaissance and Baroque buildings, like the Palazzo Trigona, and not far from the Castello Aragonese.

The discovery of the Roman Villa, situated in the locality Casale, is the most important archaeological discovery in recent years. Its immense value of art history document is mainly due to the more than 40 polychrome mosaic floors, spread over an area of over 3,500 sq m., Representing a complex which is not found in any other archaeological center of the Roman world by number and greatness of floors in importance of representations, for loftiness of artistic value.