Sperlinga castle is a strange mix to  prehistorically excavations on the rock and  medieval architectonic buildings. It is excavated in an impressive  sandstone rock  and it was utilized by Sicilian prehistorical population like a sacred area or necropolis, it was modified during byzantine domination and Sarasin domination in a military point of observation, finally during Normand domination it was changed in a castle.

A guided  visit offers the possibility to discover the different kind of excavations  like rooms, windows,  channels and tanks to collect water  rain, bell silos have been excavated  for the storage and processing of cereals, stables.

The inhabitants speak a strange dialect called Galloitalico  gave in this part of Sicily  by immigrants came from North Italy and South of France during Normand domination  from 1061  to 1137

The castle is very important to History of Sicily because during Sicilian Vespers the inhabitants protect French soldiers, they offered food during the long siege. The Sicilian Vespers is the name given to a rebellion in  Sicily in 1282 against the rule of the French/Angevin king Charles I, who in 1266 and with Papal complicity, had taken control of the entire Kingdom of Sicily.

The castle, now  is the destination of thousands of Italians and foreign  tourists,   a trip  on the village and a guided  visit  afford to discover  a Sicily rich in amazements, testimony of a past grow up to different dominations.