Castellana Sicula is a town resting on the southern slope of the Madonie, founded in the seventeenth century. It is said that the name Castellana was given by a feudal lord, the Duke of Ferrandina, in honor of his wife Gemma, a Spanish noble of the Castellana family.
Since the nineties, the town has been famous for its murals that have embellished the streets and alleys by artists who have interpreted the past and the present of the Madonie and Sicily.
Amaretto, an almond cookie, is the sweetest symbol of Castellana. It is a pastry that represents the community, prepared since the 1950s by women in every family.
Although the center is of eighteenth-century origin, archaeological finds in the surrounding area testify how the area was already populated in ancient times: the remains of a Roman villa from the first centuries after Christ, with spas and grape crushers dug into the rock, but above all the early Christian hypogea that rises next to the Roman villa and, higher up, in Contrada Calcarelli.