Collesano (Sicilian: Culisanu) is a small town in the Province of Palermo, Sicily. It is situated roughly 70 kilometres (43 miles) from the provincial capital of Palermo. It lies on the Madonie's Park between the hills and the Tirrenian see and is also famous to be crossed by the Targa Florio Circuit since the beginning (1906). Actually the town owns the official Targa Florio Museum. The millenary history of Collesano belongs also to the history of old inhabitants of Sicily called "Sicani", people coming from Spain, and later to the town of Imera, country of the poetry Stesichorous, the old Greek town founded by Calcidide (Eubea Island) inhabitants and destroyed by Annibale in 408 B.C. About Collesano tells the Arab geograph Al Idrisi when he described in "The Roger's book" the destruction of the town Qal-at-as-Sirat situed on the top of Golden Mountin by the Norman king Ruggero II. After the town has been rebuilt in the neighbourhoods and has been called Bagherino. In the Middle Age Collesano began a count and changed this name in Golisano and after in Collesano. Many aristocratic families have been succeeded in the government of the town such as the countess Adelicia de Alife, nephew of the Norman king Ruggero II; the count of Avenel; the Ventimiglia's; the Cicala's; the Centelles's; the de Folch Cardona; the Aragona; the de Moncada's; the Ferrandina. Many the monuments to visit: the ruins of the Norman castle, the old ceramic manufacture, the Cathedral of St.