Castel Turio and Church of SS. Trinity

Castel Turio takes its name from the founder of the village, Patron Turio, follower of Aeneas who, who settled on the Tyrrhenian coast of Sicily, founded what would later become Alcara. Of the Castle, located in the ancient Motta district, today two architectural bodies remain, that of a watchtower of a quadrangular plan perched on a steep and inaccessible rocky pinnacle and, at its feet, the small Church dedicated to the SS. Trinity. In the vicinity of the Church and the Tower there is a splendid viewpoint from which one can contemplate on one side the whole inhabited center with the gentle mountains beyond the Rosemary River and on the other the rugged and vertical ripe of the looming limestone fortresses of Crasto .