I don't think this one is a hot item, so I thought I'd better ask in case nobody ever brings it up. Both of my parents grew up in Agrigento (Sicily) and I still have family there. Would be more than happy to pay for some Agrigento cuttings since I don't have cuttings to trade yet - unless you want some of the unknowns I've been gathering on my walks through abandoned orchards.

Agrigento is a location are the figs also called other names?

I don't know anything about it other than what I read here: http://figs4fun.com/Var_A_info.html#AGRIGENTO

Not really sure if I understand the description. Is it the same as Atreano?

Agrigento was one of my favorite places to visit ever. A very pleasant surprise.

My mother's side is from Cianciana, Agrigento.  Family name Parisi. Nice to meet you!
No, the fig Agrigento is not the same as Atreano.

My mother's side of the family (the Licata family) had their farm in Realmonte, but spent winters inside the city of Agrigento proper. They originally came from Malta a couple generations back.

My father was from Porto Impedocle (also within a few Km of Agrigento). His last name was Varese, but his father's name was originally Brancati until he was orphaned and assigned a new name by the state.

I still have Varese family in Favara, but most have migrated to the north because the Sicilian economy is so bad.

Very interesting to meet someone else with roots in Agrigento. I meet a lot of Italians, but we Sicilians are a different breed!

I have some young fig trees that descended from my mother's farm in Realmonte. Hit me up in about a year and I should have lots of cuttings.

Hey Leon,

A kind member of our community has offered to send me some Agrigento cuttings today! I reviewed the varietal description (http://figs4fun.com/Var_A_info.html#AGRIGENTO) and I noticed that it has a link to YOUR member profile. What is your connection to this fig? Are you the one who "discovered" it? I would like to learn more about the history of this fig.

I was in Sicily visiting a friends family 6 years ago. (Before the wife and kids.) We stayed in Terrasini and visited Polermo, Corleone, and Agrigento. We walked through the ruins on a night tour with the valley of the temples lit up. I touched that olive tree in your picture. I forget how old the plaque said it was. I think it was 2000 years old. I would also love figs from Agrigento if anyone has them available. My avatar is a yellow fig outside of the place where we stayed in Terrisini. I would also love that one!

Agrigento brings back memories for me as well.  My wife's family is from Sicily, Carini and Favignana. They know I love history and took me to see the temple. We got lost and went up the wrong mountain my wife and mother in-law were getting very upset about being lost. We drove a little rented fiat straight this mountain on a dirt road and start going around the edge of the mountain With the car half off the edge I look out the window and notice the temple on the other mountain. My father in-law who was driving does some sort of k turn on this mountain, which throws my wife and MIL in a panic. Then he tried to calm them down by announcing that he has never driven off a mountain.. Accept that one time.... My wife then jumped out of the car and ran away screaming and crying. We eventually made it down with everyone alive and then made it to the temple. Here is the picture from the wrong mountain. 

I received an Agrigento Fig from the late Hanc Mathies who acquired it from a tree near those same ruins. I no longer have the tree. Sorry.

From a conversation I had with Hanc Mathies several years ago, he told me that some of the figs he collected were adjacent to prominent structures.   He would look at TV programs or brochures of a well known site and be amused to see the nearby fig tree that he was familiar with.

I looked at the Agrigento fig origin issue before.   The only information I had was that it originated next to a Greek temple.    I did some searching and a likely candidate is the Concordia Temple in Agrigento (southern Sicily).   

I found some photos at that time and some are still online that show a fig tree prominently situated in front of the temple.   The leaves are similar.   There are also other fig trees growing in the immediate area of this temple.

I don't know for sure if this is "the" fig tree or not, or if this is the correct location.  It is rare that we see a picture of a parent fig tree "in situ"  (the origin of a particular tree that is in circulation).     Here are some links to some nice photos of Concordia Temple with the possible fig tree growing off to one side.

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Photo #3

Byron (Ingevald)

Also, to according the Bellaclare fig lists BC #64 Sicilian Bifara is from Agrigento. I don't know if it is the same as Hanc Mathies Agigento.

Byron,
Nice pic's -- great light.