On Saturday 11 May at 5.30 pm in the Church of Santa Maria Alemanna, Archeoclub Area Integrata dello Strait presents the volume “CITTA’ MONCADIANE. Architecture, Power and Territory”, curated by the architect Giuseppe Giugno.
The event, hosted by Rosanna Trovato (President of Archeoclub Integrated Area of the Strait), is included in the Maggio dei Libri 2024 program of the Municipality of Messina and enjoys the participation of the Order of PPC Architects of the Province of Messina and the Province of Caltanissetta, of the ALCHIMIA and Citta Moncadiane Associations, of the PROLOCO Caltanissetta and UNPLI Sicilia.
The institutional greetings of the Culture and Tourism Councilor of the Municipality of Messina (Vincenzo Caruso) and the Presidents of the Orders of PPC Architects of Messina and Caltanissetta (Giuseppe Falzea and Piero Campa), will be followed by the interventions of Raffaele Manduca (Associate of Modern History of ‘ University of Messina) and Giuseppe Giugno (PhD in History of Architecture). Architects participants will be awarded 2 cfp of ordinary training.
The volume, published in January 2024, offers the reader a look at the territories governed by the Moncada in Sicily, between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, from Caltanissetta to the Etna and Madonie areas up to the Aretusea reality and then arriving towards the Girgenta/Saccense nucleus. Fiefdoms and cities represented the elements on which the exercise of power on the island was based and supported.
The Moncadas, dukes of Montalto, Bivona and princes of Paternò, as well as counts of Caltanissetta, Adernò, Augusta, Caltabellotta, Collesano and Sclafani, and lords of other lands, left the signs of their commission in works that still bear witness to this today the richness. Newly founded urban plants, castles, palaces, towers, monasteries, convents and places of production are both an expression of land management and evidence of the combination of architecture, art and political power aimed at giving the family influence in the Sicilian Parliament and the connotations of nobility urban.
