History Villa Gaia is located within a very ancient fief in the Val di Noto that at the time of Arab domination was called 'Zarbaktar', a word that could probably be translated as 'large plot of land'. In 1091, when the Arabs were finally defeated, after a 31-year war, by Count Roger of Altavilla, known as the Norman, the fiefdom passed to the new French conquerors, and in 1120 it was ceded by Count Goffredo to the De Gulpis family, the same family from which the town of Chiaramonte Gulfi took its name. The De Gulpis family held it for a long time, and the last one, named Costanza, passed it on to the Gualdo family, of whom there are no records. In 1392, with the expulsion of the Normans by the Spaniards, the loyalists of King Martin, Duke of Monblanc, settled in Sicily, and the fief of Gisira Pagana, which was part of the County of Modica, was assigned to Count Bernardo Cabrera, who held it for many centuries until around 1600. Finally in 1955, it was bought by the Arezzi family of Ragusa, who still partly hold it. The locality that formally takes the name Gisira Pagana is known as 'Zesira', which in Arabic means plain, and falls within the territory of Modica
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