The art of the loom and the oldest houses in Sicily - Sperlinga, province of Enna

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Hi everyone,
this time we are glad to show you Sperlinga, a small village in the province of Enna.
This village is at about 2100 ft above sea level, on a hill between the Madonie and the Nebrodi mountains. At the end of 2014 the population was 819 people, in 344
Sperlinga has a number of troglodyte dwellings, perhaps some of the most ancient houses in Sicily!
The village is first mentioned (as "Sperlingua") in a privilege of the Norman Count Roger from 1082. Sperlinga is dominated by a large mediaeval castle, dating from late Norman times. The first information on the castle is from 1113, and the earliest direct reference to it from 1239.
Sperlinga reputedly did not participate in the Sicilian Vespers, the bloody uprising against the Angevin French rulers of Sicily in 1282, and may have offered them protection. An inscription over a door of the castle formerly read quod Siculis placuit sola Sperlinga negavit, or roughly "what pleased the Sicilians, only Sperlinga denied".
The Norman colonization in somehow never ended. In fact, people from Sperlinga still speak a dialect with a Frence influence nowadays.
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