Borgo Storico Pantano, National heritage old town in Rometta, Italy.

Borgo Storico Pantano is a hilltop settlement in the municipality of Rometta, perched on a ridge in the Peloritani Mountains. It was inhabited until the post-war period, when depopulation began and ended around the 1960s. The village is part of the Peloritani ecological corridor and has been listed in Sicily's REIS register since 2009.

Basilian nuns of Santa Maria de Messana settled the fief of Pantani, held by the noble Giovanni di Manna, in 1296, but left after eight years because of the dangers of the isolated site. A notarial deed records land at Pantano ceded by the Latin Sisters of the Diocese of Messina to Antonio Calabro of Rapano for three gold tarì. In the 17th century the heirs of Niccolò Castagna, viceroy of Sicily from 1405 to 1422, sold Rapano and Pantano to the comune of Rometta for 15,000 scudi.

The name Pantano may derive from "Pantaclo", a pentagram symbolising the five elements. A Jewish-Spanish community from Pisa settled here after the 1347 plague, practising spagyric medicine and herbalism, later linked to the historic pharmacy of Roccavaldina. Many marranos kept Jewish traditions privately while publicly Catholic, leaving esoteric and kabbalistic traces.

The borgo clings to a ridge in the Peloritani hills and is reached from the Messina-Palermo motorway, Rometta exit, along the SP54 towards Rometta Monti for about 5 km to the Rapano hamlet, then 500 m to the right. The lanes are steep and uneven, so wear sturdy shoes; there are no services in the abandoned village.

The village's name may derive from "Pantaclo", a five-pointed star in a circle, an ancient symbol of the five elements: water, air, fire, earth and spirit. The pentagram linked the microcosm and macrocosm in one sign.