Gangi, Sicily Gangi, Sicily Gangi is a "comune" (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Palermo in the Italian region Sicily, located about southeast of Palermo. Gangi borders the following municipalities: Alimena, Blufi, Bompietro, Calascibetta, Enna, Geraci Siculo, Nicosia, Petralia Soprana, Sperlinga. The town straddles the Madonie mountains of central Sicily. Gangi's origins have been connected to the ancient Greek city of "Engyon", or "Herbita", but this theory remains unconfirmed. Traces of Roman presence are instead testified by archaeological excavations under the Abbey of Gangivecchio ("Old Gangi").<But according to Glenn Storey, Francesca Spatafora and other archeologists and a consolidated historiography, Engio was near
Patti, Sicily which the contracted name "Patti" derives. The city was rebuilt by Count Roger, after the Saracens had been driven from Messina (1058). The town was founded by the Norman king Roger II of Sicily in 1094. Patti is also famous for its large sandy beaches. Patti was destroyed by Frederick of Aragon about 1300, on account of its attachment to the House of Anjou; rebuilt in the 16th century, it was later sacked by the Ottoman Turks. Patti, Sicily Patti is a town and "comune" in northeastern Sicily, southern Italy, administratively part of the Metropolitan City of Messina, on the