The City

Placed in the center of a chain of verdant hills, Piazza Armerina is an animated center in the district of Enna, rich of gardens, schools, medieval monuments, of Renaissance and Baroque. Today the city represents a rightful tourist stop for one who wants immerse oneself in the past of Sicily finding contemporarily testimonies of the Roman period, of the Medieval civilization, of the Gothic-Sicilian period of 400 AD, of churches and buildings of Baroque.
The origins of Piazza Armerina surely go up again into Norman period even if other theses date the foundation of the city in the 500 AC. Piazza Armerina had its maximum splendour in the Middle Ages, in the period of Conte Ruggero Normanno and had active part in the events of the Sicilian history: in the 1296 Federico III of Aragona summoned here the parliament to decide the war against his brother Giacomo and Carlo d' Angiò that were about to the conquest of the island. Later it became an important military center and developed an important role among the alternate political-military events of the Swabian, French and Spanish period.