Santa Maria di Licodia

Santa Maria di Licodia (Sicilian: Santa Marìa di Licuddìa ) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Catania, eastern Sicily, southern Italy. History Santa Maria di Licodia occupies traditionally the site of the ancient Aetna, a settlement founded by the colonists whom Hiero I of Syracuse had placed at Catania after their expulsion by the original inhabitants in 461 BC, which absorbed or incorporated an already existing Sicel town named Inessa. Main sights Chiesa Madre (Mother Church). Of the original medieval building, a bell tower has remained Cherubim Fountain (1757) Casina del Cavaliere, a Benedictine convent of medieval origin, outside the town.