Cassaro

Cassaro
Country	Italy
region	Sicily
Free community consortium	Syracuse  (SR)
Local name	Càssaru
Coordinates	37 ° 6 '  N , 14 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 37 ° 6 '0 "  N , 14 ° 57' 0"  E
height	550  m slm
surface	19.38 km²
Residents	751 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	39 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	96010
prefix	0931
ISTAT number	089007
Popular name	Cassaresi
Patron saint	San Giuseppe
Website	Cassaro

The main road

Cassaro is a city of the Free Church consortium Syracuse in the region Sicily in Italy with 751 inhabitants (December 31, 2019).

Location and dates

Cassaro is 40 km west of Syracuse . The residents mainly work in agriculture and in gravel pits.

The neighboring municipalities are Buscemi , Ferla , Palazzolo Acreide and Sortino .

The Cassaro-Ferla station was on the narrow-gauge railway line Syracuse-Ragusa .

history

Cassaro bears the name of an Arab castle "Casar". Over the centuries it belonged to the Moleti family and later to Spadafora. Margherita Moleti-Spadafora brought the fief into marriage with Baron Pietro Siracusa (Siracusa family ) from the city of Noto , who already owned the baronies Muscia, Xiridia (now Floridia ) and Monastero. He also took the investiture of the Cassaro fief, according to documents from the State Archives of Palermo and from the Capibreve of Barbieri. His only daughter Margherita brought the fiefs to the house of Gaetani di Sortino. She died with her first-born son, Guido , in the 1542 earthquake that destroyed the castle and the town of Sortino . Together with her husband Cesare Gaetani, she is one of the ancestors of the Princes of Cassaro and Queen Paola of Belgium , née Princess Ruffo di Calabria.

Cassaro was destroyed in the 1693 earthquake that killed 56,000 people. The place was rebuilt a few kilometers further.

Attractions

• Church of Madre S. Pietro in Visconti
• Church of S. Maria delle Grazie
• Church of S. Antonio Abate
• Church of S. Sebastiano Martire
• Dammusi

supporting documents

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.

Web links

Commons : Cassaro  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Page about Cassaro (Italian)