[5] It became an important maritime emporium and was popular with the Phoenicians who brought numerous products and metals unknown to Sicily.

The territory was also colonised and inhabited by numerous Carthaginians, attracted by the fertility of the soil, to protect which they built the so-called Wall of Carini.

The practice of agriculture and trade soon brought wealth to the city, where sumptuous houses were built, many of which had mosaic floors which still remain today.

The Catacombs of Villagrazia[6][7] are the largest in western Sicily which prove that a large early Christian community existed between the fourth and seventh centuries AD.

[8] The first historical mention of a bishop of the see is in two letters of Pope Gregory the Great, in the 6th century, one addressed to Bonifacius of Reggio Calabria, the other to Barbarus of Carini.

The last testimony to its existence dates from the 8th century, and the Muslim conquest of Sicily, which began in 827, brought it to an end as a residential bishopric.

[11] Carini Castle The building was erected in the late ninth and early twelfth century, certainly on a previous Arab construction, by the first Norman feudal lord Rodolfo Bonello, warrior in the retinue of Count Roger.

The second floor, reached by an outside stone staircase Billiemi, architect Matteo Carnalivari, comprises: the ballroom, classic example of fifteenth-century room with coffered wooden ceiling, fireplace adorned with the emblem of La Grua and large windows with leaning seats and from the sleeping area, composed of frescoed rooms.

The continuous tower with a wooden gallery from which a mullioned window with the emblem of Abbate can observe the south side of the country.

Frank (Franco) Cutietta (Actor/Photographer portrayed physicist Enrico Fermi in Fat Man and Little Boy (L'ombra di mille soli), alongside Paul Newman and other celebrated actors).