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The municipality of Ali has about a thousand inhabitants. It is in a hilly area at four hundred fifty metres above sea level.
The metalworking and woodworking handicraft is characteristic.
Until ninety-sixty the small town, is called Ali Supereore to distinguish itself by the homonymous small town of Ali Terme...
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The small town was called Ali Marina until ninety fifty-four when its name was changed into Ali Terme for the presence of some thermal spa.
According to a legend between twelve hundred and thirteen hundred a vessel was stranded on the beach of Ali Terme.
Among the objects of the shipload there were a statue of Saint Rocco and a veil that is said to belong to Saint Agatha....
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The name of this small town derives from the Greek word Antillos that means sunny place.
Antillo belonged to the municipality of savoca until eighteen forty-six when a decree of the bourbon Ferdinand the second king of the two Sicilies made it an autonomous municipality....
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Castelmola is one of the most characteristic village of the hinterland of Taormina. It is situated in a hilly area at about five hundred metres above sea level.
Till eighteen sixty-two the village is called Mola that referred to the millstone. For its excellent strategic position the Sicilians lived on the hill as the tombs in the form of little caves show brought to light in Cocolonazzo....
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Casalvecchio is situated behind Sant’Alessio.
It is at about four hundred metres above sea level.
From this village you can enjoy the wonderful views of the Straits of Messina of Calabria of Etna and of the Valley of the Agrò Torrent....
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In the Greek age the village is called Niisa. The name Fiumedinisi comes from the next river that was called Flùmen Dionìsi in the medieval age that is to say the river Dionysus the god of the wine and of the drunkenness.
The territory was famous for the metal mines exploited to mint coins. In seventeen thirty-seven king Karl the third the Bourbon still made coins mint with the metal of Fiumedinisi with the inscription "Ex visceribus meis", that is to say "from my bowels" underlining that the coins had been minted in Sicily...
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In the Middle Ages the name of the village was Fortilìcium Agrìllea.
It was a little farmhouse, donated to the monastery of Saint Peter and Saint Paul from Roger the Norman which is now in the municipal district of Castelvecchio Siculo...
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Its name comes from the Latin Furca, that means Gallows and dates back to the Middle Ages, when a public gallows was placed in the squares.
In the Abruzzi there is also a village called Furci....
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Until sixteen thirty-two the little district of Gallodoro belonged to the jurisdiction of Taormina.
From sixteen seventy-eight to seventeen sixty it belonged to the noble Vigos Family. Among the most interesting monuments we remember the church of "Assunta" that has an excellent wooden gonfalon for procession dating....
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13/04/2007
The oldest nucleus of Giardini Naxos is situated on the Peninsula of Capo Schisò , where the Eubei landed in seven hundred thirty-four before Christ to found here the first Greek colony of Sicily. According to Thukydides, the colonists came from the town of Calcide, in Eubea, an island lay east of Attica. According to Appiano, some colonists came from Naxos, an island of the Aegean Sea und this may be possible from the same name given the Sicilian colony...
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Itala is divided into two villages, Itala Superiore and Itala Marina.
Itala Superiore developed in the medieval age.
The little alleys and the numerous small fountains from which the fresh water of Peloritani Mountains gushes out are characteristic....
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14/03/2007
Letojanni is an important seaside resort of the coast of the Ionian Sea. Its beaches hold thousand of tourists who have a varied accommodation facilities.
According to a legend the name Letojanni could come from the torrent Leto and from a horse called Janni swept....
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