HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

The Mojo village as an official social nucleus, dates back to 1602, when the king granted to the regent Palmerino Lanza a "licentia populandi".

An Image of Mojo's Tower in 1905

However, the first historical reference to Mojo goes back to the 15th century, when the village was the fiefdom of Tommaso Tortorici, a doctor, whose daughter Rose had married a young man of the Lanza family.

An image of Mojo in 1932

Photos gently offered by: Francavilla di Sicilia (ME)

In our century, exactly on July 27,1928 the fascist regime merged Mojo and Malvagna into a single municipality and named it "Lanza". But in 1947, under the modern Republic, the two towns were made autonomous administrative entities.

Mojo in 1953

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