Excavations, first undertaken in the 19th century by Paolo Orsi and resumed in the 1960s by Piero Orlandini, revealed a stratification ranging from the Early Bronze Age to the Roman period: oval huts from the Castelluccio culture, a vast Late Bronze Age village with apsidal houses belonging to the Pantalica Nord facies, and, between the 8th and 6th centuries BC, a Sican center Hellenized by Gela, protected by cyclopean walls of rusticated ashlar blocks and a mighty quadrangular bastion. On the acropolis remain the foundations of an archaic temple and a Hellenistic shrine perhaps dedicated to Demeter, hinting at an agrarian cult, while along the slopes lie rock-cut necropolises with chamber tombs that yielded red-figure kraters, Gnathian askoi, and bronze objects now housed in the Regional Archaeological Museum of Caltanissetta.
Between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC Sabucina flourished again with a Greek-style orthogonal settlement; in the imperial age, a rural villa with a small thermal complex testifies to productive continuity until the 4th century AD. The visitor path winds through dry-stone walls, broom, and mastic trees, touching the didactic reconstruction of two wooden and clay huts and the Antiquarium set in a former Bourbon farmhouse, where models and videos illustrate the daily life of shepherds, settlers, and farmers.
From the summit, the panorama extends from the Erei mountains to Mount Etna, making Sabucina an ideal destination for archaeological trekking and nature photography, especially at sunset when the golden light enhances the calcarenite. Shaded paths, a picnic area, and free guided tours on weekends allow visitors to immerse themselves in a park that condenses, in just over one kilometer of ridge, three thousand years of encounters between Mediterranean cultures that forged the heart of Sicily.