Belpasso

Belpasso is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Catania in the Italian region Sicily, located about 150 kilometres southeast of Palermo and about 10 kilometres northwest of Catania. Belpasso is the second biggest comune of the Catania's area for area.

The original town was destroyed by the lava flows from Mount Etna in 1669. Rebuilt in a lower plain, that habitation was known as Fenice Moncada; the latter name derives from the family of the Princes of Paterno who owned the feud. This habitation proved malarial and was heavily damaged by the 1693 Sicily earthquake, causing the spot to be abandoned and named Malpasso, and the present town was founded in 1695 in lands belonging to the Duke of Montalto.Belpasso is the native city of Stefania Spampinato, known for her role in station 19 as Carina Deluca Nino Martoglio and Condorelli, productor of typical Sicilian sweets, exported in all parts of the world, Condorelli…