In Sicilia si possono trovare paesaggi che nulla hanno da che invidiare ai verdi territori irlandesi o scozzesi. Questa è the feeling of those who have had the experience to know the town of Pietraperzia, a Sicilian town of the interior, near the town of Enna.Un charming village, sunny and quite genuine in his trad itions and its social substratum where, it seems , the influence of modernity has not upset the sense of antiquity that still reads in the face of the country. Pietraperzia is a beautiful country and its peculiarity is the strongest of silhouetted atop a high hill which overlooks a wide green valley crossed by Salty river. A position that, about 5000 years ago, they gave him the Sicilian, natives of Sicily, which certainly pleased the fertility places and the possibility of large pastures for their cattle. The presence of these ancient men is witnessed by as many as 50 prehistoric sites including the mysterious "pyramid" of Cerumbelle. The location of the archaeological site is just outside the town and you will surely obtain high, water and boots. After having crossed a road in the middle of fields of wheat arrived in a plain where the pyramid dominates encourage 
ntrastata with its 12 meters high, 55 meters long and 30 wide. A suggestive silence envelops and when you get close you feel the full weight of the centuries. The pyramid has a pyramidal structure and hilly and consists of three strips of steps above as they occur in the environments of the monolithic structures. A sort block of stone, shaped like a "sofa" is considered by archaeologists a sort of sacrificial altar. The steps are more in their own half and crossed in all four sides by four slender strips them of steps that match, given the scientific studies, the four cardinal points that would suggest a religious cult tied to the sun. Fascinating example of prehistoric archeology, is the only emotion that allows for those who dare to reach its peak from which one can glimpse a landscape Bear impressive 
. Returning to the country and looking toward the front of the valley you can see the big ridge on the prehistoric rock. Very high and steep, the mountains are dotted with caves carved into the rocks and depressions which probably have welcomed the tombs of prehistoric people. But beyond the historical data, climb this ridge of nature is exhilarating experience for the soul and the body. The Mediterranean has been maintained and original and in fact, not before they reached the plain below, where you can have a complete picture of the country Pietraperzia, you begin a climb of juniper bushes, spurge, myrtle, buckthorn and so on. Joints alla metà del costone si iniziano ad intravedere le prime buche nella roccia che vanno a formare de 
lle enigmatiche caverne collegate tra di loro da strettissimi corridoi. Giunti poi nel pianoro vicino alla sommità ci si può riposare per recuperare le forze e per prepararsi ad affrontare una delle imprese più emozionanti: raggiungere il così detto “occhio della balena”. Assomigliante al mammifero marino nella forma, esso non è altro che una grossa cava nella roccia sulla cima del costone più alto. Si raggiunge con fatica ma il tutto viene ripagato da un’aria frizzantina e da una vista memorabile dalla quale è possibile anche vedere la città di Enna. Furono proprio questi costoni di roccia bucherellati da tombe preistoriche e caverne a dare il nome al paese di Pietraperzia che deriva per l’appunto dal dialetto siciliano “Petri perciati” che significa “pietre forate”. Per chi volesse raggiungere la cittadina, essa dista 93 Km da Agrigento, 21 Km. da Caltanissetta, 104 Km. da Catania, 39 Km. da Enna, alla cui provincia appartiene, 208 Km. da Messina, 163 Km. da Palermo, 120 Km. da Ragusa, 170 Km. da Siracusa, 262 Km. da Trapani. Flavio Mela
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