The Nature Reserve of Zingaro (16 Km), the first instituted in Sicily by regional law no. 98 of May 1981, thanks to the efforts of an environmental movement, is one of the most picturesque and untouched places on the island. www.riservazingaro.it

San Vito Lo Capo: (28 km)
On the north-western coast of Sicily, huddled in the shelter of the bay between the Zingaro Nature Reserve to the west and the Mount Cofano Nature Reserve to the east, lies the first international capital of couscous, the dish of peace that symbolises integration between different peoples and cultures. Here, light, perfumes and flavours mingle to produce a landscape with typically Mediterranean colours and waters: low white houses clad in bougainvillea and a beach of pure white sand whose unusual arc shape enfolds a turquoise blue sea concealing ancient treasures in a kilometre-long embrace towards the Mediterranean.  http://www.comune.sanvitolocapo.tp.it/inglese/index.html

Favignana is an ancient Island at the centre of the Mediterranean Sea, nine miles away from Trapani (20 minutes by hydrofoil or 1hr by ferryboat), the largest of the Egadi Island. Its name derives from the wind called “FAVONIO”(zelfiro) which makes its climate very mild.
Its shape is like a butterfly with widespread wings, it has a plain area in the west side, a wood in the east and a big mountain at its centre, (Montagna Grossa 315 mt).
“Mattanza”( the tuna slaughter). Don’t miss the “mattanza”! It is the traditional tunny-fishing which has been carried out for centuries in the isle. The “mattanza” occurs from the middle of May through the first ten days of June.


Erice: The temple of the Goddess of love
"On the highest top a medieval village rises among bristly towers. It is the small village of Erice where once the most famous temple of the most famous goddess...Venus,... with its fortified walls, with its streets accurately paved".
In this way Roger Peyrefitte described Erice in 1952. The town is placed on the homonymous mount Eryx, religious center of Elimi, which is famous for its temple where the Phoenicians worshipped Astarte, the Greeks Aphrodite and the Romans Venus, Erice was contended by the Syracusans and by the Carthaginians till the Roman conquest in 244 B.C..During the Arabian invasion it was called Gebel Hamed (Mount of Hamed). In the XII century it gained again some of the lost importance and then followed the political fate of the island. It was called “St Giuliano Mount” by the Normans and retook Erice's name in 1934.  http://www.sicilia.indettaglio.it/eng/comuni/tp/erice/erice.html


The Temple of Segesta (23 km) is one of the most perfectly preserved monuments to survive from Antiquity, stands in majestic solitude on a hill surrounded by a deep valley, framed by Monte Bernardo and Monte Barbaro where the theatre is situated. Built in 430 BC (although scholars are divided about its exact date), the temple is a Doric building of extraordinarily harmonious proportions.

Selinunte. The God’s ruins: situated on high smoothing approximately 30 meters s.l.m., Selinunte takes the name from the Selinon, the prezzemolo wild. It came founded from coloni of Megara Hyblaea guides you from the ecista Pammilos, in the VII century a.C. successive Immigrations of coloni megaresi sicelioti were had is in the last few decades of the VII is for all VI century until the beginnings of V. the Selinunte tried to found of the colonies in the western Sicily (Eraclea Minoa). When, at the beginnig of V the century divampò the war between Greeks of Sicily and Cartaginesi, than concluded with the battle of Himera in the 480, Selinunte, strangely, preferred to form an alliance with Cartagine. It had numerous and strong contrasts with Segesta until the 409, year of its happened destruction just to work of the Cartaginesi. Selinunte therefore was found submitted to the dominion of the Punici that fortified it and they reconstructed it, in the area where before it rose the acropoli: the archaeological rests introduce mixed, punico and Greek living. http://www.selinunte.net/default.htm