Diodoro Siculo narrates that the tyrant Terone, in 450 BC, had a gallery of tunnels built, with the aim of supplying the city with water, which ended at the foot of a tank called Kolymbethra. This led the arid Sicilian land to become a flourishing garden full of Mediterranean plants. This place experienced its heyday between the  XIX and the XX centuries, when it became one of the most important destinations of the Grand Tour. The garden was abandoned during the last decades of the XX century, due to the death of the old farmers, until  FAI brought it back to its former glory.