Portopalo of Capo Passero rises to the south extreme of oriental Sicily, between the Mediterranean sea and to the Ionian sea. The center, founded by the ancient Hellenic, it became soon a place of exchange, where the economy founded upon the fishing well it amalgamated to the agricultural economy. To the Greek therefore the rich present archaeological testimonies are owed on the territory. The today's urban site of Portopalo of Capo Passero goes up again at the end of the '700, to work of Gaetano Deodato Moncada from Noto, 1° marquises of Portopalo.

The country was born around the "casuzze" of region "Scalo Mandrie", small apartments of the sailors, and it developed along the street Vittorio Emanuele, especially under the family Tasca. Portopalo has drawn from the sea its subsistence since the most ancient times. There is in fact to confirm that Portopalo was built yes to the above-mentioned epoch, but its origin is very remote, and it sinks the roots in epoch pre-Greek fret, when the Phoenician ones probably installed a commercial emporium on the "promontory Pachino" (then called Capo Passero).

Capo Pachino means in Semitic language "observatory." Syracuse held a little fleet in "portus Pachini" and in Greek epoch it developed a village of sailors and artisans and it rose one of the first tonnares of Sicily. After the V sec. AD there was the decadence and the secular silence and Portopalo, it had only notoriety as stings geographical of geologic studies. Among the historical dates to be quoted there is 1718, year of the naval battle, offshore Capo Passero, between English and Spaniards.