The town is a fine example of Sicilian Baroque, known for the production of honey and located near the Rock Necropolis of Pantalica and the Anapo river. The events that accompanied the village of Sortino in the Middle Ages are linked to the noble Moncada family and subsequently to the heirs of Modica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sortino is a fine example of Sicilian Baroque, known for its honey production and located near the Rock Necropolis of Pantalica<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":198671,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"the-village":"
Sortino (Sciurtinu in Sicilian) is a valuable example of Sicilian Baroque, known for the production of honey and situated in proximity of the\u00a0rugged Necropolis of Pantalica and the Anapo River.<\/p>\n
The Necropolis of Pantalica (Buntarigah = caves) is one of the best known historical testimonies of the city, composed of five thousand grotticelle that were excavated from different generations of the hominids, perhaps from the first men of Neanderthal, certainly from the first Sapiens Sapiens of the Paleolithic and Neolithic. The opera was finally completed in prehistoric times by the people of the Civilization of Pantalica that has re-used as tombs.<\/p>\n
The events that accompanied the village of Sortino in medieval age are linked to the noble family of the Moncada and subsequently to the heirs of Modica (1477). The fief of Sortino was granted by the empress Constance at Arnaldo Conte di Modica whose successors substantially remained until 1477, the year in which it was purchased by the family Gaetani Baroni, originating in Tuscany, whose ancestor, Guidone Gaetani, had moved to Palermo in search of fame and fortune.<\/p>\n
The Gaetani will, for more than three centuries, the protagonists of the story, not only of Sortino but of the entire province of Siracusa. Emblematic was the aid that Peter Gaetani gave to the reconstruction of the country in the hill Aita, where it still is located after the devastating earthquake of 1693 that struck the entire Costa Orientale Sicula.<\/p>\n
Culture sortinese, is part by now many years the Opira li Pupi (in Sicilian Language), in which are narrated the heroic deeds of the paladins of France. Between the stories more represented we the Orlando furioso; other representations staged are the famous \"farces\", comic scene narrated mainly in Sicily. Certainly the most important \"puppet masters\" sortinesi remain the \"Puglisi\", which from multiple generations handed down to us this art.<\/p>\n"},"stato_borgo":[],"village-conntection":[51109],"borghi":[76359,76367],"village-category":[35886],"class_list":["post-176275","village","type-village","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","village-conntection-sortino-it","borghi-sicily","borghi-syracuse","village-category-village-in-the-mountain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village\/176275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/village"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village\/176275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"stato_borgo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stato_borgo?post=176275"},{"taxonomy":"village-conntection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village-conntection?post=176275"},{"taxonomy":"borghi","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/borghi?post=176275"},{"taxonomy":"village-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village-category?post=176275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}