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Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor ordered a tower built to protect the territory's reserves of harvested grain in the fifteenth century. The tower was later converted to a Prison and is now a social and cultural center. Trade increased in the area after the completion of the harbor wall in 1763 . The comune became autonomous in 1853 , and assumed the name of Molo di Girgenti. The town it took its present name in 1863 . It is named after the Agrigentine philosopher Empedocles . In 2003 , the town has changed its official denomination to ''Porto Empedocle Vigata'', after the name of the fictional town where the popular novels by Andrea Camilleri , famous Italian writer and native of Porto Empedocle, about detective Salvo Montalbano are placed. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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