10 Facts About Enna

Enna is situated near the center of the island; whence the Roman writer Cicero called it Mediterranea maxime, reporting that it was within a day's journey of the nearest point on all the three coasts.

The peculiar situation of Enna is described by several ancient authors, and is one of the most remarkable in Sicily.

Accounts of the First Punic War repeatedly refer to Enna; it was taken first by the Carthaginians under Hamilcar, and subsequently recaptured by the Romans, but in both instances by treachery and not by force.

Eighty years later Enna was the center of the First Servile War in Sicily, which erupted under the lead of Eunus, a former slave.

From this time little is known about Enna: Strabo speaks of it as still inhabited, though by a small population, in his time: and the name appears in Pliny among the municipal towns of Sicily, as well as in Ptolemy and the Itineraries.

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Enna had a prominent role in the Sicilian Vespers that led to the Aragonese conquest of Sicily, and thenceforth enjoyed a short communal autonomy.

Neighborhood of Enna is celebrated in myth as the place whence Persephone was carried off by Pluto, god of the underworld.

The former says that around Enna were lacus lucique plurimi, et laetissimi flores omni tempore anni.

Enna described the meadow as enclosed on all sides by steep cliffs, and having groves and marshes in the neighborhood, but does not refer to a lake.

Enna is an important center for archaeological and educational studies.