Mileto - Duomo Maria SS. Assunta e S. Nicola

According to tradition, Mileto was founded by Greek refugees from Miletus in Anatolia, which had been destroyed by Darius.

Mileto was a Norman fortress under Roger I of Sicily. He died here of old age in 1101. Roger's son Simon died in the city in 1105 when he was 12 years old. Simon's brother and successor Roger II was born here in 1095. He began his reign as Count of Sicily in 1105, becoming the first King of Sicily in 1130.

The ancient Norman cathedral was destroyed in the earthquake of 1783, which leveled the whole of Mileto to the ground. Mileto got rebuilt about 2kms apart from the ruined town. The construction of a new cathedral took over 30 years. The building was consecrated in1823. The church had the shape of a Latin cross with a dome. The subsequent earthquakes of 1905 and 1908 also destroyed the 19th-century building.

The new and current church was built on the remains of the previous building and was consecrated in 1930.