■ History
Aluntium or Haluntium was situated between Tyndaris and Calacte. Its foundation was ascribed by some authors to Acarnanians led by Patron, some of whom settled here after guiding Aeneas across the Ionian Sea from Greece. If this legend is true the Acarnanian colonists probably were quickly assimilated by the Sicelian, who inhabited this area in historical times. No mention of it is found in Diodorus, nor is it noticed in history prior to the Roman conquest of Sicily. But in the time of Cicero it appears to have been a place of some importance. He mentions it as having suffered severely from the exactions of Verres, who, not content with ruinous extortions of corn, compelled the inhabitants to give up all their ornamental plate. We learn from inscriptions that it retained the rank of a municipium, and was a flourishing town at least as late as the reign of Augustus. The city sits atop a lofty hill of steep and difficult ascent, about 5 km from the Tyrrhenian Sea. This position exactly accords with that described by Cicero, who tells that Verres would not take the trouble to visit the town himself quod erat difficili ascensu atque arduo, but remained on the beach below while he sent Archagathus to execute his behests. Various inscriptions also are preserved at the site, or have been discovered there, one of which begins with the words τὸ Μουνικίπιον τῶν Ἀλοντίνων. Cluverius, following Fazello, placed Aluntium at a spot near San Filadelfo (modern San Fratello), where the ruins of an ancient city were then visible, and regarded San Marco d’Alunzio as the site of Agathyrna (now identified with modern Capo d’Orlando). Aluntium minted coins in antiquity, some of which survive. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Aluntium became part of the Byzantine Empire as Demenna. After a period under the Emirate of Sicily, it was captured by the Normans in the 11th century, and was used by Robert Guiscard as one of his main bases for the conquest of the island. As part of the Kingdom of Sicily, San Marco d’Alunzio was a fief of the Filangieri family from 1398 until 1806.
■ People
Scipione Rebiba (1504–1577)

NE 14.9Km	Brolo
SW 24.0Km	Caronia
SE 29.9Km	Randazzo
SW 30.6Km	Capizzi
NE 41.5Km	Terme Vigliatore
SE 42.3Km	Francavilla di Sicilia
SE 43.2Km	Mount Etna
NE 43.5Km	Vulcano
NE 49.4Km	Lipari

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