Editing Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto (section)

=== Origins and etymology ===

[[File:Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto Il Municipio.jpg|thumb |Longano Palace]]                                                                                                                                      [[File:VARA ECCE HOMO.JPG|thumb|ECCE HOMO of Barcellona]] 

Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto lies in the plain that slopes to the north close to the lush hills and the chain of [[Peloritani]] mountains, overlooking the Gulf of [[Patti, Sicily|Patti]] in the [[Tyrrhenian Sea]] on the part near the [[Aeolian Islands]] in a portion of coast between the Milazzo peninsula to the east and to the west promontory of Tindari.

The most credible hypothesis for the derivation of its name is that it was derived during the era of rule by the [[Kingdom of Aragon]] (1282&ndash;1516). It is likely the first rulers of the town came from the [[County of Barcelona]].

The oldest part of the town, Pozzo di Gotto, owes its name to the digging of a well for irrigation in cultivated lands located between the rivers Idria and Longano, belonging to Nicholas Goto as described in [[Vulgar Latin]] in a document dated 1463: "'' ... Nicolao de Gotho, ..., in quo Puzzo de Gotho ...''". In 1571 Pozzogottesi obtained from the Grand Court of the Archbishop of Messina permission to elect their chaplain stationed in San Vito no longer dependant on the Archpriest of Milazzo. The Spanish Viceroy removed Pozzo di Gotto from the under the jurisdiction of Milazzo on 22 May 1639, and ratified by royal during the reign of [[Philip IV of Spain]], and the town assumes the title "Libera et Realis Civitas Putei de Gotho". The village in the west of the river Longano in turn under the jurisdiction of [[Castroreale]] and had already followed the example of the neighboring community, rebelling against the jurors [[castrensian]] doing in the Church to recognize its independence.{{clarification needed|date=October 2021}} Notarial deeds dating back to 1522 in Castroreale report the name of the district or hamlet of "Barsalona", a name likely to be attributed to the presence in the baptismal books of Pozzo di Gotto the name of "Graziosa Barsalona", on the other hand is supported the thesis that the name of the location has been given by Iberian sailors having recognizing the remarkable similarity of the two territories.

The autonomy of the village of Barcellona was accepted by the [[Sicilian Parliament]], recognized by the King on 15 May 1815 and ratified in [[Vienna]] 28 February 1823, by King [[Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies]]. The administrative union decreed 5 January 1835, comes into force on 1 June 1836 at the behest of King [[Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies]], deciding that the new municipality formed by the merger of the two ancient districts bore the full name of Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto. Are discarded by the King all the advanced options of names derived from the word "Longano", receiving the unanimous appreciation, on the other hand the initial goodwill will turn into hatred and resentment towards the monarch as a result of criminal actions undertaken throughout the province, especially in Milazzo and Messina, which earned him the nickname of "King Bomb". The city soon established covered a certain role with significant contributions to the definitive expulsion of the [[House of Bourbon]] from the province and the whole of Sicily and increasingly effective input in all the events included in the process of unification of constituting [[Kingdom of Italy]].