Gerace was seat of a principality under the Normans, whose symbol was the Castle of the Hautville or Altavilla of the House of Candia.
On May 26, 1989 Contorno was arrested again in a hide out in an area called the triangle of death (Bagheria, Altavilla and Casteldaccia) near Palermo together with his cousin Gaetano Grado and a cache of weapons.
Andrea Acciaioli was an Italian noblewoman, as the Countess of Altavilla in the 14th century.
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Sometime after 1358 and before 1362 she then married Bartolomeo II of Capua, Count of Altavilla.