Company Folk. "Herbessus"
SEE: Via Cavour, 88 92020 Grotte (Ag) Sicilia Italia tel e fax +39 0922 945206
History of the Country
Coves, country to collinare to 516 m. on the sea level, with approximately 6.500 inhabitants, is one city laughing of the province of Agrigento, from where it tos be distant approximately 20 km.; it introduces in dry and dry of winter, coolness and ventilated climate of summer.
The preponderant presence of coves on the territory makes to suppose the name Herbessus (Erbesso) of Greek origin, attributed from the Politorio historian. Historically sure news is had to leave from 1527, year in which the emperor Carl V° it grants to the baron Caspar Montaperto and to its eredi the "licence populandi", that is the popular faculty of the feudo; it is the year of birth of Coves. Later on Coves pass to duca the Tommaso Sanfilippo and therefore to duca the Vincenzo the Grua Talamanca Filangeri of the principles of Pretty, E' the family that isti- tuisce the coat of arms of Coves, today official coat of arms.
From the artistic point of view - cultural Coves introduce settecen- the tesco palace of the Duca di Grotte, the Palace of the Town hall, former convent of the Carmelitani Fathers, with annexed the Church of the Carmine of cinquecentesca origin, the Church of the Purgatorio, with putty of scultori of the school of the Sepporta, the Church Mother, constructed from duca the Tommaso Sanfilippo, where the burial monument is found, the Church Valdese, the Tower of the Pole, erected in the 1471 from the baron Federico Montaperto.
An evocative Mount also exists calvary. Pure coves today are center of the Literary Prize "founded Racalmare" from Leonardo Sciascia, than it is carried out annually to september. The folkloristico group Herbessus takes the name from the ancient denomination "Erbesso".
Panorama of coves
