We have no news to date of documents that can testify the origins of the castle, so not only the period of its construction is unknown, but also the identity of the lord who ordered its construction. The first documents in which we read of the castle date back to 1100 and refer to the dominion of Lucia. «In the first documents on Cammarata, Lucia's donations, the" castellum Cameratae "is named as the title of the town; it is therefore to be thought that if there had not been a castle the denomination would have no sense. Therefore it is not illogical to believe that, since those times, at least, a fortified castle existed, also due to the position of the very high place of the military fortifications, with a town around it, of which Lucia was the "dominatrix". "Barone and Giarratana in thesis "Problems of the Territory of Cammarata" state: "It seems reasonable to suppose that the castle is contemporary or slightly later than the rise of the town itself, bearing in mind that the initial raison d'etre of the castle in general, as its main function, is that of protecting the underlying farmhouse, its economy, its interests and therefore guaranteeing its existence and development. "In fact," The castle ... dominates the village and can be thought of as having risen after the inhabited center. "Francesco Caruso, on the other hand, he writes that the castle is the oldest in the town: «Castrum antiquius oppido admirabili conditum artificio».

«Of them, - Barone and Giarratana write - only two are still visible today; of one you can only see some ruins on which the ancient noble coat of arms of the Palizzi that received the fiefdom of Cammarata by Frederick II in the year 1302 is clearly legible. The second is instead better preserved and has long been used as a district prison ; on the outside the noble coat of arms of the Moncada family is clearly legible. From the examination of the remaining ruins it is possible to establish that the layout is substantially rectangular; of the longer sides, the one facing west measures 50 meters, while the length of the east side is 52 meters. The south side measures 38 meters; on this side you can see the ruins of one of the two remaining towers, from which it can be deduced that its shape was circular.The north side, finally, is strengthened by the other tower also of circular shape, whose radius is meters 3.50, with a wall thickness of 2.20 meters ».

"After the end of feudalism between the municipality and the Paternò heirs" a long controversy arose. Only «in 1838 the castle was occupied by the Municipality. Later Vincenzo Collari bought it ”, who sold it to Don Giuseppe Longo from whom it passed“ to the Salesians, Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, to establish an orphanage there ”.