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| Inhabitants'name: Acquaricesi |
The civic coat of arms
of Acquarica consists of a golden fountain with a long jet of water which
underlines the  abundance
of water in this territory. The archaeological findings of the cavern of Our
Lady of the Cave date to the Neolithic, the Palaeolithc and the Age of Bronze.
On the walls of this cave there are some Byzantine inscriptions. We can advance
two hypothesis about the origins of the village: it was probably founded in the
4th century and was a territory rich of water. The second hypothesis
is that the village was founded after the destruction of three close hamlets
(Cardigliano, Ceciovizzo e Pompignano). At that time the village was probably
called Acquarica Lama. The village was ruled by several families: the
Bonsecolos, Pasquale Guarino, Guglielmo Pisanello, Riccardo Sanginetto. In the
14th century Acquarica del Capo was ruled by: Guglielmo De Sion “Merlotto”,
Syclasio, Goffredo Alemanno, Amelina Delli Castelli, Raimondello Orsini and
Lorenzo Indrini. In 1476 the village was given to Roberto
Securo and to Fabio Guarino in 1504. It was then ruled by the Baroness of
Sant’Elia, Silvia Falconi, Giovanni Centellas, the Guarinos, the Prince Giuseppe
d’Aragona, the Duke Zunica and Luisa Riario Sforza. Among the famous people of
Acquarica we remember Francesco Pedaci. He was born in 1922, took
his degree in Law when he was only 21 then became a notary. He loved his land
and wrote several books about its beauties. He died in
1981.
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