That there was a castle at Missanello we know thanks to an Arab geographer. In 1154 al-Idrisi was compiling for king Roger II the description of the kingdom, and the castle went into it: it is the first time a document mentions it.
The town appears earlier still, in 968, in the Life of Saint Vitalis: the Basilian abbot «then passed to the mount of St Elias, called Missanello». The five lozenges of the coat of arms can already be seen on a silver processional cross of 1423. Today the maiatica olive covers more than 250 hectares, over a tenth of the territory. There are 548 residents.
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📅 Every year, on 9 May
Missanello celebrates Saint Nicholas on 9 May, in the mother church dedicated to him, from 1578; the town's castle is first documented in 1154, thanks to the geographical survey commissioned by King Roger II to the Arab geographer al-Idrisi.
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Outside Missanello, but an easy day trip away.
