Patron saint festival In 69 days
Feast of Saint Victoria
📅 Every year, on 23 December
On 23 December Anticoli Corrado celebrates its patroness Saint Victoria; in 1969 the town was the set of Stanley Kramer's film "The Secret of Santa Vittoria".
In the first half of the nineteenth century the young people of the village went down to Rome to pose for the foreign painters around piazza di Spagna; then the painters came up to see where their models were from, and stayed. They rented the stables and made them into houses and studios: a census of 1935 counted fifty-five. Kokoschka and Felice Carena hang in the civic museum, and the fountain in piazza delle Ville is by Arturo Martini.
The oldest mention is a Greek inscription of the eighth century which lists a Fundus Antikuis among the properties of a Roman monastery. For nearly three centuries the lordship was disputed between the abbey of Subiaco and lay claimants; in 1256 it passed to Corrado di Antiochia, grandson of Frederick II, and the village added his name to its own to remember him.
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Bagni di Cefalà Diana 📍 Cefalà Diana · 8.4 km The only Islamic bathhouse still standing in Sicily: four sunken pools and a worn Kufic band Monte Porcara 📍 Bagheria · 16 km 388-metre mountain above Bagheria: walls and necropolis of a Hellenised indigenous settlement, perhaps ancient Paropo. Castello di Misilmeri 📍 Misilmeri · 17 km An Arab-Norman fortress built by Emir Jafar II between 998 and 1019 overlooking the Eleuterio River valley. Villa Valguarnera 📍 Bagheria · 18 km Eighteenth-century villa in Bagheria begun in 1712: key-shaped plan, frescoed salons and the Montagnola hill. Villa Palagonia 📍 Bagheria · 19 km Bagheria's villa of the monsters, which unsettled Goethe and entered Faust. Torre Amalfitano 📍 Bagheria · 17 km Farm tower in Bagheria, probably thirteenth-century, rebuilt in 1546: water cistern, warehouse and crenellated terrace.