SiracusaRosolini.
A town in feudal times, and a settlement in the
late Imperial Roman and Byzantine ages, in the 15th
c. it was a fief of the Platamones, and in the 18th
of the Moncadas, who in 1713 founded the modern
town.
The Chiesa Madre, designed in the 18th c., was
completed in neoclassical style in the early 19th
c.; nearby is Palazzo dei Platamone, built in 1668,
which incorporates an interesting little early Christian
rock church (5thc.) with a nave and two aisles and
a single apse. About 2 km from the town, on a mountainous
crag, traces have been found of a Sicel settlement,
not identified with certainty. Nearby there is a
Bronze Age Necropolis with some Christian catacombs.
