
"...Pietra Molara is situated along the route to the plain below Monreale and comprises a village with some paper-mills and a church called St.]oseph's. The village was founded in 1740 by the President of the "Royal Estate" Biagio De Spuches who called it "Land of the lily" from the flower illustrated in his family's coat-of-arms..." (from Palermo d'oggigiorno by Marchese di Villabianca).