Ventimiglia di Sicilia ( Sicilian: ''Calamigna'') is a town and ''

comune The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces (''province''). The can also ...

'' in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, located in the autonomous region of

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. Though "Ventimiglia di Sicilia" is its official name, in Sicilian, the city is known as Calamigna. Ventimiglia was founded in the 1620s by

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Girolamo del Carretto. The town was named after his wife, Beatrice

Ventimiglia Ventimiglia (; lij, label= Intemelio, Ventemiglia , lij, label= Genoese, Vintimiggia; french: Vintimille ; oc, label= Provençal, Ventemilha ) is a resort town in the province of Imperia, Liguria, northern Italy. It is located southwest of ...

. In 1863, "di Sicilia" was added to Ventimiglia, to differentiate the city from the town of

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. The city is neighbored by the towns Baucina, Bolognetta,

Caccamo Caccamo (Sicilian language, Sicilian: ''Càccamu'') is a town and ''comune'' located on the Tyrrhenian Sea, Tyrrhenian coast of Sicily in the Metropolitan City of Palermo. History The official founding of Caccamo was not until 1093, when the No ...

Casteldaccia Casteldaccia (Sicilian: Castiddaccia) is a town of 11,628 inhabitants and comune near the Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy, founded by Marquis Longarini.Russo, 1961, p. 260. It is the seat of the Vini Corvo wine producer, and t ...

and

Ciminna Ciminna is a Sicilian city in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, located approximately southeast of its capital, Palermo. The city's economy is derived mainly from agriculture and traditional crafts. The artist and Franciscan priest Pasquale ...

. The town is also home to an advanced observatory, the ''Osservatorio di Ventimiglia di Sicilia "Ezio Brancato"'' (Ventimiglia di Sicilia Observatory) run by The ''Organizzazione Ricerche e Studi di Astronomia'' (Organization for the Research and Study of Astronomy) or ORSA, built in 2001. There is also an emigrant community from the town in New York City. They have a plot with graves for members of the “Club di Figli Maria SS Rosario / Ventimiglia Sicula” in the “Second Calvary” section of Calvary Cemetery in Queens , New York City.

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ORSA Observatory Link

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