Castroreale ( Sicilian: ''Castruriali'') is a village in the

Metropolitan City of Messina The Metropolitan City of Messina ( it, Città metropolitana di Messina) is a metropolitan city in Sicily, Italy. Its capital is the city of Messina. It replaced the Province of Messina and comprises the city of Messina and other 107 municipali ...

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, southern

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. It has around 2,702 inhabitants but over 80 churches, with some houses dating to the 13th century. It is from

Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto (; Sicilian: ''Baccialona Pizzaottu'') is a town and ''comune'' of about 50,000 inhabitants in the north coast of Sicily, Italy, from Messina towards Palermo. It belongs to the Metropolitan City of Messina. Hist ...

and from

Messina Messina (, also , ) is a harbour city and the capital city, capital of the Italian Metropolitan City of Messina. It is the third largest city on the island of Sicily, and the 13th largest city in Italy, with a population of more than 219,000 in ...

. It has a tower, last remain of a castle, built by

Frederick II of Aragon Frederick II (or III) (13 December 1272 – 25 June 1337) was the regent of the Kingdom of Sicily from 1291 until 1295 and subsequently King of Sicily from 1295 until his death. He was the third son of Peter III of Aragon and served in the ...

in 1324. The name Castroreale comes from

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power ...

, and means "royal fortress".

People

* Antonino Borzì * Giuseppina Vadalà * Pina Menichelli (1890–1984)

Sources

Municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Messina {{Sicily-geo-stub