 The first official record found where the municipality mentions a concession from the Emperor Ludovico II (Louis II of Italy) who granted a privilege to the Monastery of Casauria on the site called "CIVITATE S. ANGELI" where there was a castle and a port and dated 13 October 875.In the 12th century it was aggregated to Loreto County by the Normans who established the Kingdom of Sicily.It was a Guelph city destroyed in 1240 by Boemondo Pissono, executioner to Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, and successor to the Normans as the King of Sicily, because the city was too loyal to his enemy, the Roman Catholic Church.