Like the rest of Sicily, Polizzi Generosa was freed from over 200 years of Saracen rule in the mid 1000s. Roger the Norman, who rescued Sicily from the rule of the Moslems, counted the village as a stronghold and built up its fortress. In 1234, the Emperor Frederick II bestowed the title Generosa upon the town, and it has always kept this addition to its name.
For a very remote and small town, the city has some unexpected developments. For example, in 1428 the first public school was opened in Polizzi and in 1572 the Jesuits opened a first an elementary school and later, a secondary school that taught grammar, rhetoric, philosophy and mathematics.
P.S. on vacation next week.
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