Progresso square is the centre of political and civil life of city. From this square depart the main arteries: via Santa Maria, via Marconi, Corso Vittorio Emanuele, Corso Roma and Corso Umberto in which there are some art nouveau works adorning the city that make it welcoming, beautiful and noble central square. The square houses the monument dedicated to the victims of the First World War. Inside a green space there is the statue bust of the illustrious physicist Filippo Re capriata, inventor of remote vision, who died in the earthquake of Messina in 1908.
In the opposite part, inside villa Garibaldi, there is the monument of the partisan Raimondo Saverino from Licata died in 1944 to borzonasca, Ligure, for having defended his ideals, worked by sculptor Silvio Benedetto.
The square is largely occupied by the majestic Town hall seat of the municipality in Art Nouveau style. This is the area in which the church of the SS. Trinità once stood, it was chosen at the beginning of the twentieth century to replace the old medieval city that extended along Corso Vittorio Emanuele, with the new and modern urban reality that was appearing in Corso Roma and Corso Umberto. The planning was entrusted in 1904 to the architec Ernesto basile, from Palermo, and the works were completed in the forties of the last century.
At the right-hand corner of the square there is Verderame-Navarra palace, designed in 1907 by surveyor Filippo Re Grillo. The palace is in Art Nouveau style, but there are also classic elements. Characteristic of the palace is the ashlar-work, rounded corners to accentuate the perspective idea of continuity of building inside the square.
