MessinaAlcara Li Fusi.
Possibly Arabic in origin, given in 1090 by Count Roger to the diocese of Messina.

The Chiesa Madre contains some interesting works such as St Nicolo’ Politi, by Filippo Tancredi, and the silver urn of the saint, the work of Paolo Guarna (1581). In the Chiesa di San Pantaleone is a canvas, St Antonio Abate, signed and dated by Tancredi (1715). Part of a square tower of the Turio Castle, possibly 11th c., stilI stands.