Giampilieri Superiore

History

Between the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries Giampilieri was affected by a consistent urban development, acquiring great importance in the area south of Messina and becoming the most important farmhouse. This is certainly confirmed by the fact that in this period two very important public buildings were built, the prison and the hospital, which involved the presence in the village of both a garrison of twenty soldiers and religious orders and knightly orders. On 1 October 2009 it sadly jumped to the headlines for the flood and the landslide, which cost 37 victims, 21 of which in the village of Giampilieri alone, together with the other neighboring territories of Giampilieri railway station, Molino, Altolia, Briga Marina, Briga Superiore and the town of Scaletta Zanclea. The village suffered heavily in the mudslides which devastated the area in 2009. Buried in mud, now it has been rebuilt.