CAMILLIANI, Camillo
(active ca. 1574, d. ca. 1603, Palermo)

View of the fortress

1590s
Photo
Isola di Capo Passero, Sicily

Capo Passero or Cape Passaro is a celebrated promontory of Sicily, forming the extreme southeastern point of the whole island, and one of the three promontories which were supposed to have given to it the name of "Trinacria."

All the ancient geographers correctly describe it as extending out towards the south and east so as to be the point of Sicily that was the most nearly opposite to Crete and the Peloponnese. It is at the same time the southernmost point of the whole inland.

The construction of the fortress is attributed to Camillo Camilliani.




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