Fiume di Girgenti
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The Fiume di Girgenti, or San Leone is a short river formed to the south of the ancient Sicilian
Sicily
Sicily is a region of Italy, and is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Along with the surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana Sicily has a rich and unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, music, literature,...
city of Agrigento
Agrigento
Agrigento , is a city on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy, and capital of the province of Agrigento. It is renowned as the site of the ancient Greek city of Akragas , one of the leading cities of Magna Graecia during the golden...
by the confluence of two streams: the Sant’Anna
Sant’Anna (river)
The Sant’Anna, also known as the Drago, and to Polybius as the Hypsas , is a small stream in the Province of Agrigento, southern Sicily...
(or Drago; the ancient Hypsas) and San Biago (the ancient Acragas). It follows a course of about a mile before entering the sea at San Leone, a suburb of the modern Agrigento.