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Encyclopedia Britannica



SCIACCA

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 396 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAR-SCY
SCIACCA , a town and episcopal see of Sicily, on the S.
coast
 , in the province of
Girgenti
 , 45 M. N.W. of
Girgenti
  by road,and about 3o m. direct. Pop. (1906) 24,645. It is surrounded by walls erected in 1400, and has two ruined castles, belonging to the Luna and Perollo families, whose hereditary feuds lasted from 1410 to 1529, some fine medieval palaces, and several interesting churches. The
cathedral
 , founded in 1090, was largely reconstructed in 1686. The convent of Sta. Maria delle Giummare, with its battlemented walls, occupies the former palace of the Saracen
governors
 , and contains a
painting
  of the
foundation
  of the convent by
Count
  Roger. The town has only an open roadstead. It has an important
trade
  in coral.
Three miles E. of the town is the Monte San Calogero (the ancient
Mons
  Cronius) with sulphurous and saline springs and vapour baths, which are still frequented and were known in Roman times as
Aquae
  Larodes or Therrnae Selinuntiae (Sciacca is about 15 M. direct S.E. of Selinus). The name Sciacca is Arabic, but of uncertain meaning. The town is the birthplace of Tommaso Fazello (14981570), the father of Sicilian history.


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