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Index: Description The city take the name from the ancient way direction for Messina dictates exactly viagrande. The first historical news makes reference to the construction of one church in "contrada Rinazzo" during the normans domination in Sicily. Is around the church that developed the small borgue of Villallori and Vilardi. The inhabitants very actively participated to all those events regarding the unit of Italy and that interested the Sicily. During the revolutionary motions of 1837, as an example, Viagrande was one of the first etnee countries to support Catania, and in the 1848, 60 young people came down armed in the catanian public squares against the borbonic government. When Viagrande knew of the disembarkation of Giuseppe Garibaldi to Marsala reached, on the bell tower of the Church Mother came raised the Italy's tricolour flag. Take a look for your next high-quality Sicily tour Index Attractions: The Church mother The church is consecrated the Madonna of the Itria. The structure of the facade is much articulate and complex, the forehead turns out divided in three great fields delimits from four lesene in lava stone and every field always comprises a portal in navate made by lava stone that delineates the inner structure to three. In the advanced extremity of the facade it is then possible to admire the bell tower constructed in the first years of the 1900's and the great cupola to erect during the last few years of the nineteenth century. In its inside worthy of particular attention they turn out to be various altars of optimal invoice and good chorus in wood of the eighteenth century. The villas of Viagrande Viagrande is famous for the beautiful villas placed in its territory. Just to the entrance of the country s' it meets Borgato Villa, and in the campaigns these monumental dwellings, like Villa Baron, take the aspect of summery residences with the typical color rose of the facades.
Natural resources Monteserra park
The park is situated on the road that goes to Trecastagni, it offers the possibility to pass a day dipped in the nature being taken advantage of areas equipped for being able to make also the pic-NIC. Inside there is the largest House of the butterflies in Italy that accommodates a great number of species. Index
Typical Products Between the typical agricultural products of the country we can number the citruses, the grape from wine and the grape from table. But Viagrande is distinguished also for its handicraft products, that go from the objects works in wrought iron to those in stone. Its craftsmen are known moreover, for the working of the wood that is expressed above all in the construction of the sicilian carts, whose decorations represent the gest of the champions of France. Index
Festivities and events - Saint Mauro Abate, 15 January. In this day the Patron received from the population with artifice fires assists itself to the escape of the Saint.
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