Grammichele
Sign in to saveGrammichele (; ; , later ; ) is a town and in the Metropolitan City of Catania in Sicily, southern Italy. It is located at the feet of the Hyblaean Mountains, some from Caltagirone. It has a population of 12,292 as of 2025.
Key facts
- Italian comune.name
- Grammichele
- Italian comune.official_name
- Comune di Grammichele
- Italian comune.image_skyline
- Palazzo Comunale Grammichele.JPG
- Italian comune.image_shield
- Grammichele-Stemma.png
- Italian comune.region
- Sicily
- Italian comune.metropolitan_city
- Catania (CT)
- Italian comune.mayor
- Giuseppe Maria Purpora
- Italian comune.area_total_km2
- 31.02
- Italian comune.population_total
- 12292
- Italian comune.population_as_of
- 2025
- Italian comune.population_demonym
- Grammichelesi
- Italian comune.elevation_m
- 520
- Italian comune.saint
- St. Michael Archangel
- Italian comune.day
- 8 May
- Italian comune.postal_code
- 95042
- Italian comune.area_code
- 0933
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Grammichele (; ; , later ; ) is a town and in the Metropolitan City of Catania in Sicily, southern Italy. It is located at the feet of the Hyblaean Mountains, some from Caltagirone. It has a population of 12,292 as of 2025.
== History == left|thumb|Piazza Carafa in the center of the town, Palazzo Communale and San Michele Arcangelo The town was built in 1693, after the old town of Occhiolà, located to the north of the modern Grammichele, was destroyed by an earthquake. Occhiolà, on account of the similarity of name, is generally identified with Echetla, a frontier city between Syracusan and Carthaginian territory in the time of Hiero II, which appears to have been originally a Sicel city in which Greek civilization prevailed from the 5th century onwards.