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Founded in 1610 by Nicolò Placido Branciforte, on the gentle slope of a hill, in pleasant green countryside with an abundance of water.

In the centre is the elegant Piazza Regina Margherita, formerly called Piazza del Mercato (Market Square). Of the old riding-school that Prince Branciforte built more than three centuries ago only the stables remain, in the square named after him. In the same square are Palazzo Branciforte and the Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista (17th-18th c.); the church contains a painting by Marcantonio Raimondi, of the school of Pietro Novelli, representing The Driving of the Merchants from the Temple. The 18th c. Chiesa Madre has an elegant façade and a quadrangular campanile. The Chiesa dei Cappuccini, built in the 17th c. by the Brancifortes, contains some of the farnily tombs and a fine painting by Pietro Novelli: The Election of St Matthew to the Apostleship. In the lower part of the town is an unusual fountain with 24 spouts, known as the Granfonte (Big Fountain). This too was built by the Brancifortes, in 1651. Itis the first thing that we notice, on the left, as we arrive at Leonforte from the Enna-Catania motorway exit.