CataniaLicodia Eubea.
The name Eubea comes from the ancient city of Euboea, a colony of Leontinoi (650 BC), which was situated in the territory of the modern commune. In the Middle Ages the town developed around the castle, which already existed in the 12th c. and belonged, with the fief, to the Filangeris, the Santapaus and the Russos. Licodìa was seriously damaged by the earthquake in 1693 and rebuilt in the same locality. Stories of barons and their private vendettas, ideal subjects for cloak and dagger films (or soap-operas, according to modern taste), have excited the Licodìa countryside - but here we can only hint at them.

The mediaeval turreted castle is now a heap of ruins, but the view of the surrounding landscape is very evocative. The 18th c. Town Hall and the Chiesa del Rosario are both in the main street of the town, Corso Umberto. Further on is the old Chiesa Madre, Santa Margherita, founded in 1621. In 1970 this Sicel Euboea became a twin-town of Euboea in Chalcis, in an ideal spiritual brotherhood with the ancient mother Greece.