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Agira Saracenic Castle

It rises on the higher part of the city. According to the news we possess, the mount top was already fortified at the time of the tyrant Aggiri.
It is known that in the place it has been built a fortress from the Byzantine, on which ruins the Arabs built a new one, widened by the Normans that gave its investiture to Guglielmo Malaspasano. Mentioned for the first time in 1274, when "Castrum Philippi" figure in the Angevin Statute of the Sicilian Castles, the fortress participated actively to the fights between Angevins and Aragonesi, at first, and between Aragonesi and Chiaramontani, after. The castle lost its military importance in the centuries XVI and XVII. In the XVIII century it was already in ruin. One small door on the east side allows the entrance to the first tower. Its up-floor gets light from a loophole, instead a great window, opened on the west side, illuminates the down floor. An ogive-shaped portal, with loopholes on both sides, leads to the second tower, that presents inside an ogival vault and some fireplace rests. A wonderful panorama allows to admire the Etna, the Salso Valley on the north side and the Dittaino Valley on the south side.