PIgnatelli Palace

Pignatelli Palace lies on the site previously occupied by the Castle of Fredrick II of Swabia in the XIII century. It dates back to 1638, the year in which Diego Aragona Tagliavia founded the new urban centre of Menfi. It spreads out over two floors with twelve vaulted rooms. The large main entrance leads into an internal courtyard from which, by way of a magnificent marble staircase, you can access the main floor. At the end of the feudal age it became the seat of the town council, then the Magistrates Court, a school and lastly a very popular central bar. During archaeological excavations carried out recently a Necropolis dating back to 330-400 AC was discovered right underneath the Palace floor. In the same area various fragments of pottery from the XIII century linked to the medieval settlement of Burgimilluso were also found.