The name means larder: in Sicilian ripostu is the storeroom, the cellar, and for centuries this place was exactly that — the warehouse of the county of Mascali, where the wine of Etna ended up before sailing for Europe. By the late nineteenth century the trade was such that Sweden, Norway, Brazil and Great Britain kept consuls here, and a weekly came out called La Sicilia Vinicola.
The town broke away from Giarre in 1841, after decades of quarrels, and in 1939 was joined to it again under the name Ionia: it took the war and 1945 to become two separate comuni once more. In 1820 Italy's second nautical school after Camogli was set up here, and it is still going. Franco Battiato was born here; there are 14,181 residents.
Arancino · Pasta alla Norma
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Next up: Saint Peter, patron of the fishermen of a port that inspired Giovanni Verga, Tuesday 29 June
Nearest airport: Catania Fontanarossa, 32 km away
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📅 Every year, on 29 June
Riposto celebrates Saint Peter, protector of fishermen, on 29 June; his basilica, in neoclassical style, echoes on a smaller scale the façade of the basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano in Rome, the work of Alessandro Galilei.
Saffron rice, ragù with peas and caciocavallo inside a golden cone-shaped crust: in Catania it is masculine and pointed, and the quarrel with Palermo over the name is serious.
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Outside Riposto, but an easy day trip away.
