Scala dei Turchi

La Scala dei Turchi is a rocky wall (cliff) that rises steeply above the sea along the coast of Realmonte, in the province of Agrigento.

Over time it has become a tourist attraction both for the singularity of the cliff, white in color and with peculiar shapes, and as a result of the popularity acquired by the novels starring Commissioner Montalbano written by the empedoclinic writer Andrea Camilleri, in which these places are mentioned country of the commissioner, to be framed with Porto Empedocle.

La Scala consists of marl, a clayey and limestone sedimentary rock with a characteristic pure white color. This singular-looking cliff rises between two fine sandy beaches, to access it you need to proceed along the coast and climb up a slope resembling a large natural limestone staircase.

Once you reach the top of the cliff, the visible landscape embraces the Agrigento coast up to Capo Rossello.

Scala dei Turchi is a geologically known site also because it is possible to recognize in a very simple way the cyclicality linked to the variation of the orbital parameters in particular the variations of insolation can be well correlated with cycles of an average of 21,000 years and the variations of eccentricity of the orbit with cycles of an average of 100,000 years.