Troina | |
Official Name: | Comune di Troina |
Coordinates: | 37.7833°N 50°W |
Region: | Sicily |
Province: | Enna (EN) |
Mayor: | Alfio Giachino |
Area Total Km2: | 168.28 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 9209 |
Population As Of: | 30 November 2017 |
Population Demonym: | Troinesi |
Elevation M: | 1121 |
Saint: | St. Sylvester |
Day: | June 3 |
Postal Code: | 94018 |
Area Code: | 0935 |
Troina (Sicilian: Traina) is a comune (municipality) in the province of Enna, in the Italian region of Sicily. It is located in the Nebrodi Park. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy").[2]
Excavations have proved that the area of Troina was settled as early as the 7th millennium BC (a farm dating from that period, and a later necropolis). Of the Greek town (most likely known as Engyon) parts of the 4th-century-BC walls remain, while from the Roman age are baths. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire it was a Byzantine stronghold and during the Islamic period the religious and moral capital of the Greek and Christian Orthodox part of Sicily; Roger I of Sicily had in its castle (which he captured in 1061) also a start base of his conquest of the island.
During World War II, Troina was the site of a battle between the Allies and the Axis forces. The town was mostly destroyed during the six-day fighting (31 July - 6 August 1943).
In 2021 the town began selling homes for as little as one euro in an effort to lure residents and increase the population size.[3]
Troina is twinned with: