Tourist sites
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The stacks of Scopello (15 km)Starting from the small village of Scopello, developed around an old Baglio, it is possible to set out a wide-ranging journey, visiting the old tonnara, with ist magnificent view on the cliff, and having a look at the potry workshops. The coast is characterized by the white shingly beach of Baia di Guidaloca, which is part of the amphitheater-shaped Golfo di Castellammare. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Le Isole Egadi: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. Potrai ammirare le meravigliose grotte marine e le splendide acque di Cala Rossa, Cala Azzurra e Cala Minnula da un' esclusiva prospettiva via mare. |
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Trapani (18 km):The city, sickle-shaped, is separated from the "Sea of Wind " from old and massive ramparts. "Tower of Ligny" which was built by the Prince of wood in 1671 as a watchtower by the barbarian invasions, and on the end of the north-western crescent of the port, home to the Museum of Prehistory and Sea exponent exhibits and documents found in the province of Trapani. Dovecote islands that appear visible to the traditional fishing port of the city. Around the fourteenth century in these islets was built a castle whose tower was used as a fortress in the '400 and later worked as a prison. The natural reserve of salt and the windmills, they offer a unique view of almost all Sicily. Lives in an elegant Baroque churches and palaces of the old town, also characterized by striking areas expressions of a maritime culture, such as the art gallery that houses the fish market and the fishermen's quarter. The loveliest Museum Pepoli famous for its collection of corals, once caught in the sea of Trapani. |
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Gli itinerari archeologici:Erice: The temple of the Goddess of love |
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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. |
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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. |












