Baglio delle Ninfee

About

The Baglio was built in the village of Capaci at the beginning of the 800 century, on the slopes of the mountain of Saint Rosalia, promontory of calcareous origin which still hosts a flourishing Mediterranean-type vegetation (almond trees,ash trees and carob trees) and a range of birds that give a wonderful chirping from the earliest hours of the morningThe mountain of Saint Rosalia took on this denomination in the year 1700, because when it was registered to the royal state property, according to a verbal memory, was recognized as the dwelling of the ascetic Rosalia Sinibaldi, when from the mountain Quisquina (Cammarata) she approached the city of Palermo, before stopping in the final hermitage of Mountain Pellegrino. The Bagli borned as a place of refreshment and rest for cattle breeders, who used to graze animals in the surrounding mountain.Over the years has been used as a mill and successively used as a warehouse for Manna storage (product obtained from the incision of the ash tree, with a high sugar content and a slightly sweet taste, once widely used for its laxative properties).Until the beginning of the last century Capaci was a major center in the production of Manna, today this activity has disappeared but it was, together with fishing, the whole economic life in the village