Mount Alveria (Netum)
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Mount Alveria (Netum)

Situated on the top of Mount Alveria, the ancient Netum, while developing in a naturally protected area (only a narrow passage to the north connected it with the surrounding mountain area, for the rest it was surrounded by deep valleys), was surrounded by walls and equipped with a castle. It was divided into five districts distinct from the main road axes. The city was destroyed by the earthquake of 1623. The excavation campaign carried out by Orsi in 1896 brought to light the Sicilian necropolis located in the valleys and divided into north necropolis, east necropolis, south-east necropolis and south-west necropolis, identified the city Greek of the Hellenistic period with the discovery of a necropolis, a gymnasium and heroa, the latter obtained in vast rooms dug into the rock, a construction technique of ancient Sicilian origin. To the Christian-Byzantine period, 1961th cent. AD, belong the small hypogea, about a dozen, which Orsi found in part near the castle and the rest in the upper part of the Sicilian necropolis, the north one. Remarkable is the presence among these of a Jewish catacomb. The Byzantine cemetery, on the other hand, was found on a plain in the countryside, under the necropolis to the south-east, about thirty bell-shaped pits which yielded finds in all respects similar to those of the Byzantine necropolis of Grotticelli in Syracuse. Much later, from 1963 to 1972, essays were carried out in the various buildings by G. Santocono Russo on behalf of the Superintendency of Monuments of Catania. The essays carried out in Netum by the Superintendence of Antiquities of Syracuse under the direction of V. La Rosa are from 74-1990. A Hellenistic terrace is identified in the area below the Hieronian Gymnasium near which he proposed to place the agora of the Hellenistic city. The remains of a rectangular building on the same site as the church of S. Elia belong to the same period. In XNUMX the conservative restoration works, reliefs and essays in the area of ​​the Castle in that of the Jesuit College, at the Mother Church of San Nicolò and the Hermitage of Santa Maria della Provvidenza
performed by the Superintendency of Syracuse 

Bibliographic sources:

P. Orsi, N. Sc. 1897, pp. 69 - 90; V. La Rosa, Sicilian and Baroque Archeology: for the resumption of the problem of Noto Antica, Noto 1971; G. Santocono Russo, Explorations in Noto Antica. Research campaign 1961-63. Noto 1986, pp. 1-30; RM Albanese Procelli, A storeroom of bronzes in Noto Antica, in Acts and Memories IVSNA, XVII-XVIII, (1986-1987), Noto 1989, pp. 45-72; L. Arcifa, Observations on the urban layout of Noto in the Middle Ages in AA. VV., Noto 1992, pp. 45-63; L. Guzzardi, Excavation essay at the Hermitage of S. Maria della Provvidenza in Noto Antica, in Acts and Memoirs ISVNA, XIX- XX (1988- 1989), Noto 1995, pp. 121- 136;

Site subject to archaeological restrictions. FROM // 1979/11/10 // n.1897

(Text source: survey form n.73, 74 Landscape Plan of the Province of Syracuse - Archaeological Heritage)

Archaeological Heritage Sheets Landscape Plan of Syracuse

Traces of the Lower Paleolithic 

Bibliography and in-depth documents:

198) D. Petruso - V. Forgia - L. Sineo: The human population of Sicily: an interdisciplinary review in the Archive for Anthropology and Ethnology - Vol. CXLIV (2014)

Download file:  SINEO et al

199) Various authors: Discovery of the Lower Paleolithic in Eastern Sicily - (1976) Article in Natura · January 1976

Download file: DiscoveryPaleolithicInferior_SicilyOrientale-complete

200) Gioconda La Magna (edited by) Between Etna and Simeto - Archaeological research in Adrano and its territory - Proceedings of the study meeting for the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Adrano Museum Adrano, 8 June 2005 - Library of the Regional Province of Catania 2009

Download file: The_Neolithic_in_Valle_del_Simeto 

Bibliography and in-depth documents:

100) FIRST SICILY - AT THE ORIGINS OF SICILIAN SOCIETY - volume first edited by Sebastiano Tusa Palermo 1997.

Ignazio Caloggero: Sicily between History, Myths and Legends. Vol. 1: From Prehistory to the Phoenicians. First edition 2018 - Revised and updated edition of 2022

History of Sicily - 1.2. Paleolithic and Mesolithic:

History of Sicily - 1.2.1: Religious sentiments and burials in the Paleolithic and Mesolithic

History of Sicily - 1.2.2: Art in the Paleolithic and Mesolithic

History of Sicily - 1.2.3: Archaeological sites of the Sicilian Paleolithic and Mesolithic

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Information contributions: Ignazio Caloggero Web, 

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