Buscemi is a little village on the Iblean plateau, perched on a hill at 761 meters above sea level. Its layout recalls a great natural theatre overlooking the valley of river Anapo surrounded by the archaeological evidences of ancient Akrai, Casmene and the Necropolis of Pantalica.
The historical roots of Buscemi plunge into the Byzantine period, when a big troglodyte conglomeration grew on the slope of the hill where the modern village rises today. The first historical information date back to the Arab period, when the fortress that dominated the site below was named Qal Abu Samah, later Abu Xamah, Abuxama, or even Abisama. In the Norman period the name was latinized in Buxemma and Bussema.
After the earthquake of 1693, the village was reconstructed on the same site and the rebuilding marks the birth of modern Buscemi with its fine examples of religious and civil Baroque architecture.

The Main Church. It is a particularly interesting Baroque building. The façade, with three orders, was completed in 1769. The interior of the church is divided into three naves by a series of columns that give a special plastic movement to it. On the various altars there are some well-made paintings, mostly of unknown authors. An altar in the left aisle keeps the embalmed body of St. Pio, originally the catacombs of San Callisto in Rome.

Church of San Giacomo It is a late-baroque church. Taken away from the Church properties after the unification of Italy, it was incorporated in the municipal properties. It had several uses over the times, today it houses conferences, exhibitions and cultural initiatives. The interior has an interesting plan, with an elliptical nave with oval atrium and rectangular apse.

Church of San Sebastiano It was built from scratch after the earthquake of 1693. The old location in the south of the village was abandoned and a new one was chosen along the main road of the village, in line with the Church of San Giacomo, on a raised position to get a soaring effect. You can enter the terrace, enclosed by an elegant balustrade, through a gate protected by two stone lions. The church is currently closed for restoration works.

Church of Sant’Antonio da Padova The church partly collapsed as a result of the earthquake of 1693 and was rebuilt on the same site. Only the first order of the façade was built, whereas according to the drawing by Cultraro there should have been three. The builder, Boscarino, gave a very special movement to the façade and therefore the church is considered a particular example within Sicilian Baroque. The interior probably follows the seventeenth century architecture of the former church. Inside you can admire a beautiful eighteenth-century wooden statue of Our Lady of Sorrows and some graves of the Requensez family.

Carmine Church. Annexed to the Dominican convent, built in the sixteenth century, this church has a simple and incomplete façade. The interior has only one nave, and there is an important work by the workshop of the Gaginis, that is a sculpture depicting the Annunciation consisting of two statues on carved pedestals; moreover, you can see some canvases by Paul Tanasi and a very well made eighteenth-century painting of St. Blaise.

"The places of rural work" is the unfolding of an ethno-anthropological itinerary that involves the whole village, with landscape and monumental interest as well, which has given Buscemi the singular definition of “museum -village” a sort of museum which is considered a particular example in Europe. In some rooms, often rearranged to imitate, almost with photographic grip, a life that no longer exists, it provides the cultural context of a community in its true relationship between man and nature, through the passing of time. The museum comprises nine units: the house of the farmer, the millstone, the blacksmith's shop, the home of the laborer, the coppersmith's shop, the carpenter's shop, the shoemaker's shop and the jugs' mender's shop. Then there are the sections: cycle of wheat, stone-cutters, folk art, the educational workshop on the cycle of wheat, the popular life Documentation Centre and the Santa Lucia watermill in the territory of Palazzolo Acreide.

Shrine of Madonna del Bosco. Rebuilt after the 1693 earthquake in the same place, it is the only suburban church remained after the earthquake, reflecting a secular worship of an image on plaster depicting Virgin Mary with Baby Jesus, kept above an altar on the left wall.

Rock Church of San Pietro. It is one of the few Byzantine monuments in eastern Sicily. Paolo Orsi explored and described it in 1899. It rises four km from Buscemi in the Santa Rosalia valley. In 1855, Vito Amico noted the presence of "many sacred images in Greek style" and a very ancient image of St. Marco. Very few traces remain of these images. The church consists of a rectangular room supported by four large pillars, drawn from the rock; the first two of them are shaped, in the upper part, as capitals of Doric inspiration. The space for the celebration of religious rites is on the right side, raised by two steps, with an altar and a chair hewn out from the rock.

The Nature-religious trail “The Madonnas of Fra' Giuseppe". This is a walk through forest and rocky terrain that brings to life the religious experience of Brother Giuseppe, a hermit from Buscemi, who lived his life in contemplation and solitude. Several caves scattered throughout the territory and Madonnas carved and engraved in the rock are interesting witnesses to the life of the last hermit of the province of Syracuse.

Monte Casale, Casmene archaeological area. Casmene (from the Greek Kasmenai) was a Greek colony, founded by people from Syracuse in 644 BC, in a strategic position for the control of central Sicily, and used as a military outpost on the interior road that from Syracuse led to Selinunte.
It was brought to light in the early twentieth century by Paolo Orsi.
Monte Casale is 830 m high and it is an ancient extinguished volcano near Monte Lauro.

Ruins of the castle, probably of Arab origin, on the top of the hill called Monte overlooking a picturesque landscape, and ruins of the convent of San Francesco, built after the earthquake of 1693.

The last Sunday of August the feast of the Madonna del Bosco, Patron of Buscemi, is celebrated. The celebration is characterized by the procession of the statue, carried by devotees on their bare shoulders, which slowly proceeds from the shrine towards the entrance of the town, welcomed by the authorities of the village. Then the procession continues along the long sacral road, as it has always done. During the procession you can witness a great triumph of love and devotion, with many children stripped and offered to the Virgin. The "ballad" and a great explosion of colours, with thousands of nzareddi (strips of coloured paper) launched at the passage of the statue, before entering the Mother Church, close the feast.

Festival of ricotta, the last Sunday of April. Stands of typical products and musical performances.
Buscemi museum town at night, the penultimate weekend of August, late opening of the museum, live show of arts and crafts, concerts, exhibitions, cultural exchanges with other regions.