A YOUNG WHICH
the flowers gave
their name
An extraordinarily brave teenager
Many centuries ago, a girl of a noble family, surrounded by the splendor of the court of the Norman kings in the splendid Palermo in Sicily, escapes from an arranged marriage to embrace a life as a hermit.
We are in the twelfth century and Rosalia, who is just 13 or 15 years old, walks through woods and clearings, following a path that will take her from Palermo to Quisquina in the heart of the Sicani Mountains.
Twelve years later she will retrace that road again to return to Palermo, a hermit on Monte Pellegrino, where the Sanctuary dedicated to her now stands .
In the seventeenth century, in fact, while the plague raged in Palermo, his remains were found in a cave on the Mount and carried in procession in the city, they will miraculously determine the disappearance of the terrible disease that plagued Palermo.
Since then, this young, daring and revolutionary for her time, has been invoked as a powerful thaumaturge around the world. The cult of Santa Rosalia begins.
L'Itinerarium Rosaliae is a naturalistic-cultural-religious journey created in 2014 by the Department of Rural and Territorial Development of the Department of Agriculture for Rural Development and Mediterranean Fishing of the Sicily Region. -136bad5cf58d_It connectsthe places of the journey of Santa Rosalia - the Hermitage of Santo Stefano Quisquina on the Sicani Mountains in the province of Agrigento and the Sanctuary of Santa Rosalia on Monte Pellegrino in Palermo - crossing the places where there are testimonies of the passage or stay of Santa Rosalia.
The route, also traced beyond the historical truths, winds along paths, royal trazzere, mule tracks and disused railways, crossing for about 187 km the territories of15 Municipalities of the provinces of Palermo and Agrigento, fra pristine environments of great value, protected natural areas and suggestive villages of the Sicilian hinterland with marked cultural peculiarities .
The naturalistic journey took on a full cultural and religious value on May 27, 2020 with the recognition of its religious-devotional aspect which took place with the signing of the "Itinerarium Rosaliae" Convention, signed by the Archdiocese of Palermo, Agrigento, Monreale and the Eparchy of Piana of the Albanians, in whose territory the Itinerarium falls, and by 4 Regional Councils.
Since 2018 the Itinerarium Rosaliae Territorial Workshop of the Policoro Project of the Archdiocese of Palermo entrusted to Kòrai - Territory, Development and Culture has undertaken the enhancement project.
