CAPACI | TORRE PUCCIO - OLIVERI | PALERMO | SICILIA | FPV AVATA DRONE FOOTAGE 07/ 04/ 2024

The name of the town derives from Sicilian Capa whose meaning is head. Capaci has very ancient origins: the first settlings belonge to Paleolithic period.

The oldest historical episode whose we have some news dates back to 1241. It is about the concession of some possessions made by Federico II.
Medieval feud until 1400 but lacking in inhabited centre because of the Muslim attacks from sea, it was occupied only by woods and vineyards.

About 1576 the centre began to be peopled under the Baron Gilberto. In 1619 Vincenzo Pilo from Calvello acquired Marineo's marquisate and Capaci's baronage. Until 1860 the county had ruled by the descendants of Pilo's family and later it became a self-governing commune.

In the artistical field there are: the Cathedral Church in baroque style dedicated to St. Erasmo, inside the apse above the altar there is a valuable Crucifix; the Palace of the Counts Pilo, now it has been restoring; the seventeenth century Church of St. Rocco, on its side there is the bell-tower still now entire; the Fontana Grande ( the great fountain), pure spring-water gushes from it.

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