Place:Porto Empedocle, Agrigento, Sicilia, Italy

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NamePorto Empedocle
TypeCity
Coordinates37.3°N 13.533°E
Located inAgrigento, Sicilia, Italy
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Porto Empedocle is a town and comune in Italy on the coast of the Strait of Sicily, administratively part of the province of Agrigento. It was named after Empedocles, a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a citizen of the city of Akragas (present-day Agrigento), in his day a Greek colony in Sicily. The primary industries of Porto Empedocle are agriculture, fishing, ironworking, pharmaceuticals and rock salt refining.

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