Licata

Licata is a metropolis and comune positioned at the south coast of Sicily at the mouth of the Salso River about midway between Agrigento and Gela. It is a primary seaport developed at the flip of the 20th century, transport sulphur, the refining of which has made Licata the largest European exporting centre, and asphalt and at times shipping cheese. The site of archaic settlements the town became based at the proper bank of the Salso in 282 BCE, by Phintias, a tyrant of Agrigento, who named it for himself, razing the town of Gela and resettling its population at his new settlement. Phintias laid it out on a superb scale with its walls temples and agora.

As past due as the 1^st century BCE, inscriptions and cash show that the inhabitants retained the call Geloi. The placing took gain of a small natural harbor, about 80 meters across, which corresponds to a natural melancholy alongside the coast that is now in packed with construction. The website online changed into included by the headland now named Monte San Michele. At nearby Cape Ecnomus, in 256 BCE the Romans received a first-rate conflict inside the First Punic War.