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Alessandria della Rocca (Sicilian: Lisciànnira di la Rocca) is a comune and small agricultural town located in the northern part of the Province of Agrigento, west central Sicily, southern Italy. The remains of the 14th century Castello della Pietra d'Amico can be found about 5 km (3.1 mi) away from the town. [ 3 ]
The castle itself was built in the 14th century, and it probably consisted of a square tower and a rock-hewn silo. [3] In 1542, it was sold to Don Nicholas Barresi, who founded the municipality of Alessandria della Rocca. Part of the rock on which the castle was built collapsed over time, destroying most of the structure in the process.
ISTAT Code Comune Population (2005) 084001 Agrigento: 59,031 084002 Alessandria della Rocca: 3,412 084003 Aragona: 9,902 084004 Bivona: 4,116 084005 Burgio: 3,031
The town also supplied a large portion of Italian immigrants to Jacksonville, another city in Florida. [ 3 ] Santo Stefano Quisquina stands at an altitude of 730 metres (2,400 ft) above sea level and borders the following municipalities: Alessandria della Rocca , Bivona , Cammarata , Casteltermini , Castronovo di Sicilia , San Biagio Platani .
It housed two long-time businesses and its significance highlights the commercial development of the city's public square. [2] The building is a three-story, brick, Queen Anne commercial building that was built by Ed Hunt and E. A. Howard on the north side of the town square in 1892. They did not occupy the building themselves, but rented to ...
The Province of Alessandria, the Italian province with Alessandria as its capital; Alessandria del Carretto, a town in the province of Cosenza in Calabria; Alessandria della Rocca, a small agricultural town in Sicily; Alessandria (meteorite), a meteorite which fell in 1860 near Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy
The province of Agrigento (Italian: provincia di Agrigento; Sicilian: pruvincia di Girgenti) is a province in the autonomous island region of Sicily, Italy, situated on its south-western coast. Following the suppression of the Sicilian provinces, it was replaced in 2015 by the Free Municipal Consortium of Agrigento (Italian: libero consorzio ...
The first known Jews in Alessandria, named Abraham (son of Joseph Vitale de Sacerdoti Cohen) opened a loan bank in or about 1490. [9] In 1590, the Jews were expelled from the Duchy of Milan, and one of Abraham's descendants travelled to Madrid, which ruled the Duchy and was permitted to stay in the town due to a large sum owed him by the ...