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Centuripe (
Latin:
Centuripae;
Sicilian:
Centorbi) is a town in the
province of Enna (
Sicily, southern
Italy). The city is located 61 km from
Enna, in the hill country between the Rivers Dittaìno and Salso.
The economy is mostly based on agriculture. There are caves for sulphur and salt mineral, and water springs.
History
Thucydides mentions
Kentoripa as a city of the
Sicels, hellenized in the 5th century BC. It became an ally of the
Athenians at the time of their expedition against
Syracuse, and maintained its independence almost uninterruptedly (though it fell under the power of
Agathocles) until the
First Punic War.
Cicero describes it, perhaps with some exaggeration, as being by far the largest and richest city of Sicily, and as having a population of 10,000, engaged in the cultivation of an extensive territory. It was granted
Latin rights before the rest of Sicily. It appears to have suffered much in the war against
Sextus Pompeius, and not to have regained its former prosperity under the empire.
Emperor
Frederick II entirely destroyed the city in
1233 in punishment for its rebellion, the inhabitants deported to Augusta. King
Charles I of Anjou razed it completely to the ground, and the city was rebuilt only in
1548 by
Francesco Moncada.
The city was known as Centorbi until 1863.
Main sights
Considerable remains of the ancient city walls and of buildings, mostly of the Roman period, still exist, and numerous antiquities, including some fine
Hellenistic terra-cottas, have been discovered in casual
excavations.
Other sights include the
Chiesa Madre (17th century) and the ruins of the so-called
Castle of Conradin, in fact a Roman construction of the imperial age.
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