Almost at the beginning of SP 85, the road on which the Agricamping Sophia faces, the roadway is narrowed to make room for a casamatta built during the Fascist era in belief that it could be useful in case of invasion ally . The entire Iblean territory is dotted with similar structures . Needless to say, they were set up for a old-fashioned and over-conceived way to conceive of the war events that would soon happen. In other words, it was only a waste of energy and reinforced concrete, since the dynamism of the movements allies and the poor equipment of the insufficient Italian-German forces rendered them irrelevant.


South Eastern Sicily was the scene of that Operation Husky which indelibly marked the history of the twentieth century. Here the sad memories of war are still alive among the elderly, who had to share the happy years of youth with the fear that the war at any moment would upset their lives and engulf their hopes for the future.
We are in full Second World War . After tearing Tunisia to the Axis, July 10, 1943 the Allies landed in Sicily . At the end of April 1943, the British Secret Service, with a refined counterintelligence operation, made the Axis General Staff believe that the invasion of Italy would take place from Sardinia . Here Italians and Germans are forced to move to Sardinia part of the already meager military deployment in defense of Sicily.


The night between July 9th and 10th, paratroopers and aliantists are launched as avant-garde allies between Gela and Syracuse with the aim of sabotaging the Axis communications, but less than 10% of them reach their goals and the action has poor efficacy. On the morning of July 10th, the 8th English Army of Gen. Montgomery, lands between Capo Ognina (Syracuse) and Punta Castellazzo (c.da Marza, between Ispica and Pachino) : a military force like this on that coast it was not seen since ancient Rome. The Axis artillery batteries deployed between Marzamemi, Portopalo, c.da Maucini and near the military airport of Pachino , prove to be ineffective against the naval fire of the Allied gunner.


With all due respect to Duce and his real conviction of being able to stop the enemy on the shore , despite heroic gestures like the one that sees four protagonists of the Porto Ulisse garrison, the which manage to resist the assaults of many allied units for three hours, the overwhelming military superiority of the Allies forces the Axis forces to surrender in a short time .
From the Pachino airport, now in the hands of an ally, some "informed" Pachinese told that the Prince Umberto of Savoy took off secretly in the direction of Lisbon to deal with the armistice that would then be signed on 3 September Cassibile.