Global InformationHistory of Torregrotta information
The history of Torregrotta begins in Roman times with the formation of the first latifundia[1] and encompasses the historical and social events that have taken place up to the present day within the municipal territory and are closely related to it. Since the Middle Ages and throughout the modern age the area was subject to the jurisdiction of the fief of Santa Maria della Scala and, to a lesser extent, that of Rocca.[2] The predominantly peasant population concentrated in the hamlet of the Scala fief, abandoning it beginning in the 14th century.[3] The modern town came into existence only in the early 1500s when the hamlet was rebuilt at the behest of Emperor Charles V and developed over the following centuries.[4][5] With the dissolution of the fiefdoms following the administrative reforms of the Bourbons, the hamlet, called Torre, and its possessions came under the control of the Municipality of Roccavaldina.[5] Beginning in the second half of the nineteenth century, the social and economic development of Torre, which by then had become Torregrotta, caused a series of contrasts with Roccavaldina, first in the religious and then in the civil sphere, culminating in the administrative split of the two communities in 1923.[6]
- ^ Coco et al. (1993, p. 16).
- ^ Coco et al. (1993, pp. 59–83).
- ^ Coco et al. (1993, p. 70).
- ^ Coco et al. (1993, p. 69).
- ^ a b Pandolfo (1999, p. 7).
- ^ Coco et al. (1993, p. 17).