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PIAZZA ARMERINA ENNA HAD THE SENATE

6° title of 1777 Senato

Nel the Piazza Armerina Enna Sicilia, which for 42 years is under the reign of the Bourbons, obtained from King Ferdinand IV of Bourbon III of Naples and III of Sicily, said re Nasone, the title of the Senate (although this title is already in a docum ENTO of 1671 referring to Court Giuratoria).

On the island already enjoy this title 9 cities, including, in addition to popular back then, Caltagirone, Lentini and Cefalù. Afterwards will this title also Nicosia, Sciacca and known.

In these four decades Platia with a hospital, an orphanage, a pawnshop, 34 different accounts, 2 2 barons, Dukes and marquises, a Prince among its 16,000 inhabitants, is considered among the major cities of Sicily and occupies the 23rd place in Parliament's Arm Siciliano, reserved for State-owned city called "Opulent.

Despite the constant famines and plagues that are knocked down on the population, given its strategic location, the city is able to support economically the carrying out of View of the militia, which sees each time the presence of 12,000 men from across the region, hosted inside and outside the walls. Probably among the many merits, this is the main impacts favorably on granting the title.
While they are expelled from the Jesuits, with considerable damage for students attending our "boarding school-seminar" the new mother church dome was completed.
The Senate seat is in the former home of the demolished municipal Loggia and gives the privilege to jurors who went from 4 to 6, to be named Senators including one assumes the title of patrician.
The first Patrick is the count Vincenzo and Gaetano Starrabba, brother of the Prince of the country, both founders of Pachino Giardinelli in their fief of Scibini between 1756 and 1760.