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Nov 20, 2018 · A town of Saracen origin, Bisacquino derives its name from the Arabic Abu-seckin – which translates as “father of the knife” – due to the tradition of making and commercializing goat horn-handled knives that is still alive.
According to a first hypothesis, the name Bisacquino could derive from the Latin bis-acqua, which means abundant in water, to indicate the abundance of springs in the place.
Nov 29, 2022 · Among the prominent names linked to the village of Bisacquino, we remember the director Frank Capra and the Scibetta family, expert watchmakers for centuries. Bisacquino in the greenery
In 1812 the Bourbons took over the government of Sicily and Bisacquino stopped gravitating around the archbishop of Monreale, definitively assuming its current name. The Bourbons abolished the fief and changed the town’s coat of arms by introducing royal symbols and a fountain full of water.
Bisacquino (Sicilian: Busacchinu) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Palermo in Sicily, Italy. It is located 82 kilometres (51 mi) from Agrigento and has approximately 4,500 inhabitants. The small town rises on an inner hill zone and is 700 metres (2,300 ft) above sea-level.
The original nucleus of the village was founded by the Arabs in the year 840, and still today it presents an urban conformation of an Islamic imprint with narrow and winding streets, courtyards, alleys, arches and fountains.
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Bisacquino, western Sicily, a village of 5000 inhabitants, with a fascinating past. Mount Triona dominates it, among the waving and relaxing hills of the Sicilian hinterland. Here was born Frank Capra, the child who took the ship to America and who became a director and won three Academy Awards.
