Carini

Carini is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily, 19 kilometres by rail west-northwest of Palermo. It has a population of 37,752.

Timaeus, in the thirteenth book of his work Histories, said that it was called Hyccara because the first men who arrived there found a species of fishes which were called hycae.The small town, in the ancient periods called Garinis, was built around the X century by the Arabs, not far from Hyccara, the only Sican settlement on the coast. It was stormed and taken by the Athenians in 415 BC during the Peloponnesian War, and the inhabitants, among them the famous courtesan Lais, sold as slaves.