In the ancient Aluntio, founded in the pre Greek era, we find evidence in Greek Roman, Byzantine, Arabic, Norman and Baroque. S. Marco was given its names by the Normans and Roberto the Guiscardo in built the fortress, developing around it crowds of houses and small streets, rising through it churches, abbeys and chapels. from the 600 and 700 period strong evidence has been shown on the flourishing of the Baroque architecture. Hercules' Temple it is the only temple in the province of Messina which is from the Greek period. Built in the IV century A.C., should have been a temple in Antis, shaped of the cell in which its side walls extended forward forming the pronao, the side

walls ended in two antes between which rose two pillars. Today only one cell exists, once the religiious area was reserved for priests only. It is a constuction of rock tufaceous. In the XVII century the cell became Mother Church and dedicated to S. Marco the Evangelist.         Consecutively on the portal was added Baroque architectural designs. Castel Ruin. Today you can only admire few ruin. Rising above a spur of rock, under it developed houses. It was built by the Altavilla, consecutively passed from the Aragona to the Angioini and remained definitively to the Filangieri at the end of the feudalism in Sicily.