Trabia
Trabia is a municipality in the province of Palermo in the Italian region Sicily, with 10,230 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2012).
Location and data
Trabia is located 33 km east of Palermo. The inhabitants mainly work in agriculture and in quarries.
The neighboring municipalities are Altavilla Milicia, Caccamo, Casteldaccia and Termini Imerese.
History
747 AD have become the first Arabs settled here. All this is evidence in a document that sent the Emir el Aadelkum Chbir military leader, Ben Muhammad Aausman. At that time still called " Tarbiah ", the harbor was used as a strategic base for Termini Imerese.
1154 AD was here made the first dried pasta and spaghetti and exported all over Sicily and later to the mainland .. Today coming Chinese monastery monks in the place to get a picture of it.
On November 14, 1509 Emperor Ferdinand rose to the land of the Barony Castle Trabia, and claimed the land and the massive sugar cane for himself and made himself independent of Termini Imerese.
In 1635, the family Lanza, with Don Ottavio II of King Philip IV, who received licentia populandi. He built the first houses. In 1643 he built the first church dedicated to Saint Oliva. Trabia In 1652 had the "new" Trabia 143 inhabitants. The work of the mills, the abundance of fish, especially tuna, that the growth of the population favored, developed the village. The descendants of the Lanza family were the most important representatives of politics, military and culture of Sicily, last Raimondo Lanza, great athletes.
Attractions
- Castle from the Middle Ages
- Porta Palermo, part of the old city wall