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EriceHeart of town is the capital that rises on the homonymous "mountain." Until the'30s it was called 'Monte San Giuliano'. Once it was one of the largest in Sicily, it included territories very distant from the capital: Valderice, Custonaci, Buseto Palizzolo and San Vito Lo Capo. Different fractions that complement the area, at the foot of the mountain mother (Casa Santa, Roccaforte, Rigaletta, Tangi, Ballata, Napola, Pizzolungo, etc.). Erice A were only slightly more than three hundred inhabitants, which increased tenfold in the summer. Artigianato characteristic ceramics. Dolce typical Genovese cream, pasta with sweet icing sugar on top (it is possible to taste the variant with ricotta) and "Mustaccioli" biscuits made in the ancient monasteries of nuns. | | | | 
Castellammare del Golfo (Casteddammari in Sicilian) is a town of about 15,000 inhabitants in the province of Trapani. Bases its economy on tourism and, less than in the past, on viticulture and fishing. Every two years you are celebrating the historic attack at the port by the British, foiled, according to legend, the arrival of Our Lady of the assicursu (Madonna of relief). The town lies at the foot of the mountain of Monte Inici and gives its name to its castle overlooking the Gulf, bounded to the east by Rama and head west from San Vito head. | | | | 
MarèttimoMarettimo is part of Egadi Islands and is the location MARETTIMO, hamlet of Favignana, in the province of Trapani.
The ancient greek name of the island, mentioned by Polybius, was Hiera Nésos, meaning "Sacred Island." The name probably derives from "Maritime", the Latin name that the island is already in 'Itinerary Antoninotimo wild. This is not the only type of grass that grows spontaneamante on the island, where the climate of particular contributed to the development of a flora of straordinaria.greco, quoted by Polybius, was Nésos Hiera, meaning "Sacred Island ". The name probably derives from "Maritime", the Latin name that the island is already in 'Itinerary of Antoninus III century AD Some scholars suggest that the origin of the name is to be found nell'abbondante presence of wild thyme. This is not the only type of grass that grows spontaneamante on the island, where the climate of particular contributed to the development of a unique flora. | | | | 
FavignanaFavignana is a town of 4383 inhabitants of the province of Trapani, the archipelago consists of Egadi, or the islands of Favignana, Marettimo and Levanzo and islets (practically reef) Maraone, Formica, and Galera Galeotti and The Fariglione.
The island of Favignana is approximately 7 km from the coast of Sicily between Trapani and Marsala, in front of the Lagoon to the islands or at Trapani "Birgi".
Favignana is from the port of Trapani in about an hour of ship navigation and in fifteen minutes by hydrofoil.
On the island of Favignana is Mount St. Catherine, 314 meters high, and a hill 252 meters high | | | | 
Isola di LevanzoThe Island of Levanzo is the smallest Egadi Islands, with an area of only showed 5 km 2, is part of the province of Trapani. It consists of white limestone rocks which have many caves. The ancient Roman name of Phorbantia was, by the name of a particular spice in place.
The country is composed of a small group of houses having a small marina, which lies about 15 km from Trapani. It is free of roads rolling stock, apart from a small stretch of road that leads to the beach of Faraglione. The condition of technological backwardness explains the integrity of its beauty.
The headland is the highest pizzo Monaco, at 270 meters asl
On the coast overlooking some caves, the best known of which is the Grotta del Genovese, with its carvings and cave paintings of 11,000 years ago. Through stratigraphic analysis, it was possible to do one of the few dating carbon-14 of the prehistory of Sicily, which indicated the year 9230 BC (epigravettiano evolved): The stratigraphic sequence in the presence of a limestone fragment large bovine animals affected with a style, quite similar to the parietal representations on the walls, made it possible to get this absolute dating. | | | | 
Macari Macari (sometimes written Makari) is formed instead of a seaside village located about 4 km from the capital town and has about 200 inhabitants (source: Istat 2001). | | | | 
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MoziaMozia (also known as Mothia, Motya), today San Pantaleo is an island of the Lagoon of Marsala, in the province of Trapani. Was situated on the ancient Phoenician city name. The island faces the west coast of Sicily, between the Big Island and the mainland, and belongs to the Whitaker Foundation. | | | | 
Nubia Museo del Sale Located in Nubia (Paceco Municipality), the museum is housed in the premises of the mill of the salt Culcasi within the wildlife reserve of Saline of Trapani and Paceco. You can admire the ancient tools used in Trapani salt pans and the gear of the old windmill. | | | | 
La Riserva naturale orientata dello Zingaro La Riserva naturale orientata dello Zingaro is managed by the Regional Forestry Demaniali the Sicilian Region.
The coast of Zingaro is one of the few stretches of the coast of Sicily is not contaminated by the presence of a road along the coast.
In 1976 he had already begun work on the construction of coastal Scopello San Vito Lo Capo, but following a series of environmental initiatives in the world, culminating in a partecipatissima protest march that took place on 18 May 1980, the Regional Demaniali forests of the Sicilian Region is committed to expropriate the area of Zingaro recognized environmental interest.
With the Regional Law 98/81, was officially set up the reserve, the first nature reserve in Sicily, carried in the Company Management Regional Forestry Demaniali. | | | | |
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San Vito Lo Capo
San Vito Lo Capo (Santu Vitu in Sicilian) is a town of 4180 inhabitants of the province of Trapani. The country is one of the most famous summer residence of Sicily, for the beauty of its beach. . | | | | 
ScopelloScopello is a fraction, with about 80 people, grew up around an old beam, which is just over 10 km from the capital town. Ferdinand III of Bourbon had chosen the area of Scopello to the rank of reserve for the real hunting. Nearby is the Natural Reserve of Zingaro and "stacks of Scopello, with the adjacent trap. Probably its name to the stacks or rocks (in Latin scopulus in greek scopelos). On the rocks above the tuna are two towers, one of the'200 which only ruins remain, the second of 1500, was designed by engineer Camillo Florentine Camillians, while a third tower (tower Bennistra of the sixteenth century) overlooking the village which is the trap. | | | | 
SegestaSegesta is a historic cities no longer inhabited, founded by the Elimi and in the north-west coast of Sicily.
The old town stands on Mount Barbaro, in the municipality of Calatafimi-Segesta, about ten kilometers from Alcamo and Castellammare del Golfo.
Of particular beauty are the temple in Doric style, and the theater, partly dug into the rock of the hill. | | | | 
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TrapaniTrapani (Trapani in Sicily), a city located between two seas, also known as a city of salt and sailing, is a town of 70,638 inhabitants, capital of the homonymous province. Its conurbation, however, more than 100 thousand inhabitants as a part of the city, the populous village of Santa Casa, the subordination of the City of Erice. Therefore is the fifth urban area siciliana by number of inhabitants. Has developed over time a flourishing economic activity linked to the extraction and trade of salt, the help of his natural position, projected on the Mediterranean, and its famous port in ancient times served as a commercial outlet for the more famous Eryx (modern Erice) located on the mountain overlooking Trapani. Other activities were flourishing - and still are - Fisheries (formerly the tuna, with mattanza), extraction and trade of marble, working with the coral. Today the city lives mainly in the tertiary sector, activities related to fisheries, trade and tourism. | | | | 
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