During the long dominion of the Aragonese (1282-1516), Avola also underwent various events, transforming in 1361 from a state property to a feudal land under the Baron Orlando of Aragon. However, it will be in the Habsburg-Spanish period (1516 - 1700) that the city became marquisate in 1542. With Carlo D'Aragona, it will see its greatest economic-urbanistic and cultural development. The ancient city was destroyed by the earthquake of 1693 after which it was rebuilt in the warm and fertile plain downstream, in a happy position with respect to the trap, the trappeto and the communication routes. The architect Angelo Italia, a Jesuit friar, was given the task of secreting the site, designing and placing the urban layout of the city destroyed by the earthquake, by Prince Nicolò Pigantelli Aragona Certes, marquis of Avola and Duke of Terranova flies. Municipality of the extreme edge of Eastern Sicily in the province of Syracuse, it is located in the narrow coastal plain that separates the southern slopes of the Iblei of the Ionian-Mediterranean coast of Sicily, and can be reached along the ss. 115. A thriving city in the sector in the agricultural sector, with citrus groves, almond groves and vineyards and in the service sector, such as to be considered among the richest in the province of Syracuse, it has combined its name with world-renowned agricultural products such as the prized " Pizzuta almond "and the" Nero D'Avola "grape variety. u designed a hexagonal plan with an orthagonal road network, isolated with internal courtyards, two main roads ten meters wide and oriented exactly with respect to the North; at their intersection the main square square, at their vertices four rectangular squares. The design has been an overhang of wonder and amazement by many travelers and scholars. A global vision of the planimetric layout is given by an engraving commissioned in 1756 by Giuseppe Guttadauro, poet and writer, published in 1757 by Vito Amico.