Our area was once rich in hazel so that an old proverb says: "A Ciazza fimm'ni and nuciddi.
In a rich monograph Ferdinand Alfonso (1886) states that the core was introduced in Sicily during the Arab domination. According to Professor
. Alberghina ortofloroarboricoltura the Department of the University of Catania, the Arabs will not export the core because it does not like very hot climates, and argues that the cultivation of stone may date to the late Roman Empire. Its direct investigations (1970) performed in the territory piazzese in the valley overlooking the Villa Romana del Casale, they found a wealth of germplasm never seen anywhere else.
Diplomas and instruments of sale (first written in Sicily on stone) dating back to Norman times we are told, implicitly, that the Arabs of the nocciolicoltura Piazza grew increasingly moving from the valley of River Giozzo (birthplace) in other estates of the same territory. Then with the Normans and the subsequent domination came in Palermo (Polizzi Generosa). Particularly important among species was "a Chiazzis" botanical variety that is typical of Piazza Armerina. Today
around Piazza Bellia there is beautiful forest filled with pines, poplars, but the eucalyptus tree prince. From a small book of Roccella R. Calarco (by Sicilian Normans, 1954) we learn that the eucalyptus, such as poplar, mature in our area with four years ahead of other places that is more than eight in twelve years. And 'this is the reason why the prof. Aldo Pavari University of Florence, then chose our area to others for its culture.
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