Sant’Agata di Militello rises on a fruitful plain enriched with citrus-fruits growings. Turned to the Tyrrhenian Sea, the village admires the splendid Eolie isles.

The village was founded according to legend by some fishermen of Catania who escaped a shipwrecked built the village and dedicated it to their patroness saint, Sant’Agata.

In 1630 the baron Luigi Galleco made built on a height to defend the coast an imposing castle.

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The building, with imposing shapes and a stern architecture, is protected by cylindrical towers in Medieval style and it includes a curtyard full of trees.

On the front there are some big windows and the entrance area surmounted by a arched structure.

The castle’s curtyard, once protected by a drawbridge, leads to different areas which were used as satbles, as stores and as servants’ rooms.

From the noble floor furnished with flats of the prince and reachable by a characteristic spiral staircase, it gets to towers and to wide terraces.

The building also includes in its wing an elegant chapel entirely supplied with classical elements.