The places

Palermo, Teatro Massimo

Castellammare del Golfo

Province of Trapani – Sicily – Italy Getting there By air: from “Falcone and Borsellino” Palermo's Punta Raisi, by highway A29 (direction TP), exit “Castellammare”; or from “Vincenzo Florio” Trapani, by highway A29 (direction PA). In bus: PALERMO by Russo leaving from Marina Square. In treno: FF.SS Line stops at Palermo-Trapani …

Custonaci

custonaci@castellammaredelgolfo.com Custonaci Custonaci is an agricultural center where the extraction and processing of marble, especially the pearl of Sicily, is now the main economic activity, so that the country is the first center marble island. In its territory, which also includes the highest peak of Mount Sparagio, several caves are scattered, interesting from a geological perspective …

Erice

erice@castellammaredelgolfo.com Erice On the top of Monte San Giuliano, a 571 meters in height located Erice: its name derives from the Sicilian Eryx-Italic, which means “mount”. Area, of extraordinary beauty, and of course provided with, was inhabited since the time of the Upper Paleolithic and Neolithic (the caves). The town was elim, then under the influence of the Carthaginians (his …

Favignana

favignana@castellammaredelgolfo.com Favignana: the butterfly of the Tyrrhenian Favignana, that the Greeks called Aegusa and in medieval times took its current name from the wind Favonius, resembles a large butterfly came to rest peacefully on the waters of the Mediterranean. Waters that still evoke the events of history and myth, they hide in their depths the secrets of ancient battles, …

Mazara del Vallo

Mazara: the cathedral and the waterfront Mazaro The river mouth is an excellent natural shelter used by humans since ancient times. The first to exploit it were the Phoenicians, who made a point of reference for their maritime trade in the Mediterranean. Around the 600 a. C. supervened that the Greeks of Selinunte …

Mozia and Saline

Mothia – Mozia Immersed in the area of ​​water called the Lagoon is the small island of San Pantaleo, where once stood the ancient city of Mothia. It’ This is one of the oldest Phoenician foundation (late eighth century. a.C) together in Panormo and Solunto. Soon Mozia became one of the bases of the ancient world's most important commercial, but after the …

San Vito lo Capo

sanvitolocapo@castellammaredelgolfo.com San Vito lo Capo… a walk that is not only sea Let's go into this lively town made of sun and sea but also of history and monuments. Of particular interest are: the Torrazzo, the Sanctuary and the small temple of Santa Crescenza, all in Arab-Norman style. A few steps from piazza Santuario we find via Savoia, …

Scopello / Gypsy

scopello@castellammaredelgolfo.com Scopello and the Zingaro From the small village of Scopello, that develops around the court of a beam (agglomeration quadrangular walled, containing a source of water and a basin-trough in the middle of feud, where they carried out the work of farm-pastoral farming) You can begin a path varied, visiting the old trap, or …