Palma di Montechiaro — Palma di Montechiaro Map Poster & Print

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Palma di Montechiaro Map Poster & Print

Palma di Montechiaro lies in the province of Agrigento on Sicily's southern side, a few kilometres inland from the Mediterranean. From above, the town reads as a compact block of straight, parallel streets set on rising ground. Its outer edges break up where the slopes steepen. Beyond them the map opens into fields, orchards and the scattered lines of country roads that lead down to the shore.

The town was founded in 1637 by the Tomasi family, and the order of that plan still shows in the street pattern. Streets cross at regular angles, and the main church and the family's former residence sit near the centre. The Tomasi line later produced Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, author of The Leopard, and literary visitors often come here for that connection. On a Palma di Montechiaro map poster the planned grid stands apart from the looser terrain around it.

South of the town the land drops toward a coastline of low cliffs and small bays. The Castello di Montechiaro stands on a headland there, a medieval stronghold that gave the town its second name. On paper this makes a clear composition, with a dense grid in the upper part of the frame, open countryside through the middle and the thin edge of the sea along the bottom.