LUIGI
PIRANDELLO’S HOUSE
Contrada Caos, SS 115 - Agrigento
Phone +39 0922 511102
Fax +39 0922 602299
• Map of Luigi Pirandello’s house
• Map Agrigento-Porto Empedocle-Villaseta
• Who is Luigi Pirandello
• Open all
days 8.00am-8.00pm
• Walk to
the pine-tree 8.00am-one hour before dusk
• Entrance
Lit 4000 (free for citizens of European Union age over
60 or under 18)
•
Audio-Visual material
• flash
photography is not allowed on the premises
Luigi Pirandello Library
via Regione Siciliana, 120 - Agrigento
Phone +39
0922 444111
Fax +39
0922 602299
Opening:
monday-saturday 8.30am-1.30pm
Luigi Pirandello’s birth-home is a late-18th
century country-house standing alone and silent in the middle of Agrigento’s
countryside, in an area known as Caos, on a hill, amidst olive-trees and
oaks, steeply sloping to the sea. The Ricci Gramittos, the writer’s mother’s
ancestors, took possession of the house in 1817 where they took refuge to
escape a cholera epidemic
that hit sicily. In 1944, an explosion at a neighboring munitions-store of
American troops caused heavy damages to the house. In 1949, it was declared a
National Monument. Three years later the Sicilian Government bought it, soon
undertaking extensive restoration works at the house and at the path that leads
to the pine-tree.
The rooms, looking out on the countryside,
contain a vast collection of photographs, early reviews and
autographed editions of his early works, and posters of its major plays. The house periodically hosts
temporary exhibitions dedicated to the writer. Since
1987, the museum has been a whole with the Luigi Pirandello Library.
The Luigi Pirandello Library is a
multimedial centre dedicated to the Sicilian world-famous playwright, holding a
variety of documents grouped into several categories. Some autographed
documents, mostly coming from the author’s heirs, are of high interest. The
collection counts some 5,000 pieces among letters, playscripts and personal
objects.