[TI] Altavilla Milicia

[Joseph Laiacona]

I have done research in the Mormon records from Altavilla, if you need some 
help.

Joe


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> Appears to be about halfway between Termini and Palermo along the 
> coast..Much more can be found by doing a web search on the name.
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> Altavilla Milicia (Zip Code 90010) is 126 km. far from Agrigento, 121 km. 
> from Caltanissetta, 214 km. from Catania, 122 km. from Enna, 235 km. from 
> Messina, 24 km. from Palermo, which province it belongs to, 262 km. from 
> Ragusa, 312 km. from Siracusa, 123 km. from Trapani.
>
> The municipality has 5.513 inhabitants and its area covers 2.379 hectares 
> for a density of population of 232 inhabitants per square kilometre. It 
> rises on a hilly area near the coast and is 70 metres above sea-level.
>
> The Town Hall is placed in via Loreto n. 80, tel. ++39 091-951275 fax. 
> ++39 091-951826.
>
> Important in the agricultural field, besides citrus fruit, also olive 
> trees and vine.
>
> The small town took its name from Altavilla, in honour of the most 
> powerful Norman family whose leaders were the Great Count Ruggero and his 
> brother Roberto the Guiscardo. They about 1060 began to conquer Sicily and 
> rid it of Arabian domination.
> The appositive Milicia was added in 1862 and derived from the near river 
> to differentiate it from the others already present. At the early of XVII 
> century the centre was founded by the marquise Sambuca Beccadelli on a 
> existent small settling down. Altavilla Milicia then changed from him to 
> Bologna family and remained for all the century.
>
> Destination of pilgrimages is now the Cathedral Church, consecrated to 
> Madonna of Loreto, inside the present museum of popular religiousness that 
> keeps a great quantity of ex vows painted on glass, tin and wood. The 
> church and the baronial palace Beccadelli are placed in an unusual 
> position: they are side to side on a long panoramic with a large view of 
> the coast.
>
>
> Jim
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