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Index: Description The first testimonies on the origin of Ragalna go back to the normans age. In a document of the 1136 we can find the ancient denomination of the country, exactly was called Rechalena. In the 1780 Ragalna came threatened from the lava tap of the Etna in eruption. The faithful prayed for days so that asked God for the end of the catastrophe but lava continued to be left over. Arrested only 26 May when were capacities in procession until the more advanced arm of lava the Barbarian reliquism, Saint of Paternò. Check now your etna holiday vacation Index Attractions: The Church of the Saintest Maria of the CarmeloBuilt up in the XIX century the church has not a very defined style. The facade is simple, with ornaments and perron in lava stone, various times restored, while the bell tower is in ghotic style . Inside to its rectangular navata we find the inlaid greater altar in marble polychrome, constructed for devotion of the lawyer Antonio Battle in 1868. The church guards the ligneus fercolo of carved fir of the saint.
Natural resources The surface of the territory of Ragalna, all inside of the Park of the Etna, is of 2.504 hectares. Ragalna is called “ terrace of the Etna” for its geographic position since dominates an immense landscape that extends from the Simeto river to the gulf of Augusta and until the city of Enna. The various altitude on which it extends evidences one strongly diversity of the environmental-naturalistic aspects. It is passed from the cultivated zone to the forest zone. Then there is the desert zone, that arrives until the crater. The Coves There are various natural coves, which the Saint Barbarian Cove that reside to 1783 meters high, and the Catanese Cove, which is one of largest and morphologically beautifulr of the entire volcanic territory. Index Typical Products The ragalnesi have found in fertile volcanic lands the ideal place in order to put to cultivation of wineyards and in order to produce optimal wine. And just the wine colture represented for Ragalna the primary source of gain. But the true wealth of Ragalna remains the production of the oil of olive, known for its lightness and absence of acidity.
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Festivities and events - Festival of the cherries, june
- Madonna of the Carmelo, 16 July and the last Sunday of september. Patronale festivity.
- Festival of apples, October.
- Festival of the oil, December
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