The Santapau Castle is placed on Colle Castello (castle hill) , in Licodia Eubea center, Catania province. Its visible ruins let us think to a probable byzantine origin just as the neither gallery, that establishes a communication between the castle and a thick net of tunnels.
It looks the place of the fortress had a big strategic and military importance, then made concrete by Normans in the current difensive structure.
The ownership of the castle passed from Angioni to Aragoneses, from Filangeri to Santapau of which it took the name till 1610.
The earthquake in 1693 destroyed the town and the castle in almost their totality.
Actually it is possible to visit the ruins now property of municipality, arriving to the old town center from the freeway Catania-Gela, Licodia Eubea exit.