 The built-up area, located at 44 m a.s.l.in the Niceto valley, it stretches between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the first Peloritani mountains.Originally built in medieval times as a farmhouse of the Santa Maria della Scala fief, after a period of neglect, it was rebuilt since 1526 and, at the beginning of the 19th century, it became a sub-municipality of Roccavaldina from which it obtained administrative autonomy in 1923.