Mazzarrà Sant’Andrea

Secondo un'antica leggenda orale, a fondare Mazzarrà fu, ai tempi della dominazione saracena (827–1061), l'emiro musulmano Mazarak che, conquistate Taormina e Novara, affascinato dalla fertilità del terreno e dall'amenità del luogo, si insediò in questa contrada, andando ad abitare in una grande fattoria, fatta costruire dai suoi fedeli servitori quasi alla confluenza dei torrenti Cartolano (Brandino) e Macheo o degli Aranci (Mazzarrà), dove era stato edificato un avamposto avanzato della fortezza di Tripi, Novara di Sicilia e Montalbano Elicona. Da qui, Mazarak poteva controllare agevolmente tutto il traffico che passava dall'osteria del Vigilatore proveniente dalla spiaggia di Salicà e che si snodava verso le suddette fortezze (castelli). Della sontuosa dimora e castello si scorgono ancora i ruderi, invasi da erbacce e da rovi, nei pressi dell'attuale campo sportivo. Oggi sull'origine del nome Mazzarrà ci sono varie ipotesi, ma una in particolare quella più realistica, si riferisce al fatto che in arabo i villaggi per la conduzione dei fondi agricoli erano detti Manzil o Rahàl, pertanto sorgendo in questo luogo del Castellaccio tante fattorie, la contrada fu denominata sempre Manzil e Rahàl, nome che poi in volgare diventò Mazzarak (unendo i due vocaboli) e quindi in dialetto locale, Mazzarrà

Mazzarrà Sant’Andrea

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