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Joppolo Giancaxio

 

Ioppolo Jancaxio was the first town founded in the upper valley dell'Akragas. It was a feud with the noble title of Barony Calogero Gabriele Colonna Romano who in 1696 in the territory of Giancascio and Regalturco, with privilege of jus populandi did raise the first buildings of the village which he named in honor of his wife Rosalia Ioppolo Ioppolo the Dukes of Cesaro and Giancascio because it was built in the estate of that name. The small farming town with its territory was under the jurisdiction of the Colonna family first with barony and then duchy until 1812, when the Sicilian Parliament was officially abolished feudalism and then feudalism, the baronial jurisdiction and privileges "and mere and mixed empire ". Considered first fraction of Aragon and then of Raffadali, in 1927 it became autonomous.

 

Monuments to visit

 The ducal Church, dating from the seventeenth century

The Castle of the column, dating from the seventeenth century

 

Not to be missed

The chapel was built in the last century to house the remains of Calogero Gabriele Colonna Baron Ioppolo, Member of the National Parliament, he died in Livorno in 1879 and transported to Ioppolo with solemn pomp and honors. Besides him in this chapel is buried brother Francis (Don Ciccio) was also Member of the House and Duke of Reitano. Title granted to him by his brother to marry Catherine of Corleone Cammarata, who gave him John, Giuseppina and Rosina, also buried in that chapel. The ancestor of them, Dominic Colonna Romano died in 1841 is buried under a tombstone instead earthy in the mother church of the country.