Accademia Euracea
The Accademia Euracea was an Italian academy from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It was founded on January 12, 1774 by the Termitan priests Giuseppe Gargotta, Antonio Comella-Fileti and Giuseppe Cipri. Their patron was Giuseppe Gandolfo. The academy was named in memory of ancient Himera on the nearby Monte S. Calogero or Euraceo mountain and the lyric poet Stesichoros , who lived here for much of his life.
The study group stopped their work in July 1800. It had 98 registered members at the time. Shortly before the research community ceased its work, Giuseppe Cipri founded the Biblioteca Liciniana , named after him, under the pseudonym Mopso Liciniano , in which the unpublished discourses and poems were preserved.
After the separatist revolution from 1820 to 1821, Niccolò Palmeri , who was originally a member of the first association under the pseudonym Siralgo Nisifaro , re-founded the academy. It was opened in 1822 and lasted until around 1824. The unpublished discourses and poems by the members of the second academy are also kept in the Biblioteca Liciniana , today's Biblioteca Comunale di Termini Imerese.
In 2006 an Accademia Mediterranea Euracea di Scienze Lettere ed Arti (AMESLA) was launched again. On the first floor you can find the bust of the Imeres poet Stesichoros under a large laurel bush .