Vittoria
VITTORIA, a town of Sicily in the province of Syracuse, 95 m. W.S.W. of Syracuse by rail (42 m. direct), founded in 1605 by Giovanni Alphonso Henriquez, who named it after his mother, the famous Vittoria Colonna. It is a prosperous town 1 Vitruvius names Cicero and Lucretius as post nostrum memoriam nascentes.
' The architect being at that time also the contractor.
in the centre of a fertile district, with the largest wine trade in Sicily. Pop. (1901) 30,832 (town), 32,219 (commune).
Note - this article incorporates content from Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, (1910-1911)
