E' one locality of the entroterra that allonge on the sea with Navy of Pacts.
Founded in the 1094 from conte Ruggero I, elevated to episcopal center from king Ruggero II in 1131, name city direction from Federico III of Aragon in 1312, Pacts receive the title it of “magnanimous” from Carl V, in order to have poured a generous one I pay to the crown. Of its important past it remains little, because of the damages provoke from earthquakes (in particular that one to you of 1693). The Cathedral, whose structure puts into effect them is settecentesca, introduces a beautiful rimontato portale normanno on the main facade. The colonnine to bundle that frame it support of the pregevoli capitelli with bassorilievi of late-Romanesque taste: two-faced and winged zoomorfe and anthropomorhic figures are represented. Inside the sarcofago is guarded of Queen Adelasia (transetto skillful), moglie of Ruggero I, cinquecentesco rifacimento of originates it them of 1118. On the side north of the city, in correspondence of the Montagnareale torrent, Michele finds the Saint door, the only survivor of the town-walls Aragonese building, and, to ridosso, the Chiesetta di S. Michele, than conserve a beautiful marmoreo ciborio of Antonio Gagini (1538) with one composition to trittico with one theory of angels to the center, placed side by side from S. Agata and S. Maddalena. In the historical center the visit to the Church of Saint Nicholas of sec. the XV and XVI is always interesting, the Church of S.Antonio of sec. the XIV and the Church of S.Ippolito of sec. the XIII, recently restored. Today it constitutes the main center of the zone orients them of the Nebrodi. It is a lively center of the pointed out tirrenica coast in the inner part of omonimo the gulf.