Porto Empedocle

Porto Empedocle is a city and comune in Italy at the coast of the Strait of Sicily, administratively a part of the province of Agrigento. It is the namesake of Empedocles, a Greek pre Socratic philosopher and a citizen of the town of Agrigento in his day a Greek colony in Sicily. The primary industries of Porto Empedocle are agriculture, fishing, ironworking, pharmaceuticals and rock salt refining. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, ordered a tower constructed to defend the territory's reserves of harvested grain in the 16^th century.

The tower changed into later converted to a jail and is now a social and cultural middle. Trade accelerated inside the area after the final touch of the harbor wall in 1763. The comune became autonomous in 1853. Their early call became Marina di Girgenti and after the synthetic harbor changed into constructed, wharf of Agrigento. The city took its present name in 1863, after the Argentine truth seeker Empedocles. In 2003, the city modified its reliable denomination to Porto Empedocles Vigata after the name of the fictitious city in which the popular novels with the aid of Andrea Camilleri, Italian author and local of Porto Empedocles, about detective Inspector Montalba no are located. However, the selection turned into revoked in 2009.