Sant'Agata di Militello
Sant'Agata di Militello is a city in the province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, with 12,724 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2012).
Location and data
Sant'Agata di Militello is located 99 km west of Messina and 136 kilometers east of Palermo in the Tyrrhenian Sea. Jobs are in agriculture, the crafts and the Mamorindustrie.
Sant'Agata di Militello has a freeway connection to the A20 / E90. The train station of Sant'Agata di Militello is on the railway track Palermo - Messina. The travel time by train, depending on type of train between 1 hour and 38 minutes and 2 hours.
The neighboring municipalities are Acquedolci, Militello Rosmarino, San Fratello and Torre Nova.
History
The town was founded in 1630 near a Norman tower of Luigi Calego.
Attractions
- Parish church, construction began the church in 1842, completed in 1928
- Castle of the 18th century, it belonged to the Prince of Trabia
- Ethno - Anthropological Museum of Nebrodischen Mountains in the Palazzo Gentile
Sons and daughters
- Vincenzo Consolo, born in 1933, writer