The site contains a very large graves system situated inside several ravines; the largest of them is called "Cavagrande" (transl.

[1] Avola comprises the nucleus of a large archaeological site, which borders the nature reserve of Riserva naturale orientata Cavagrande del Cassibile.

In the additions, archaeologists have hypothesized that there was a large Sicul settlement (often identified with an ancient city called Hybla) formed after the overpopulation of Pantalica around 1100 BC.

The pyramidal hill in front of the necropolis, called the "Cugno Mola", has been identified as a fortification, which Thucydides mentions in his account of the Peloponnesian War.

He describes a military fort established at the mouth of the river Cassibile by the Syracusans to watch over the fleeing Athenians.