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Erix:
Erix it raises at 750 mt above the sea level. Among the many
monumenta of notable importance in the Church (XIV c.)
consecrated to the our lady "Assunta", the medioeval Castle (XII-XIII
c.) with remains of the temple and the townhall, the seat of a
library and the Cordici Museum, with archeologic founds of the
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Mothia:
surely one of the first Sicilian seats founded by the
Phoenicians. You can reach the island in a few minutes boat on a
sounding-depth unusual indeed, in a fact during the low tide you
can admire under water the ancient road that linked the island
with Sicily. The town was surrounded with walls with four doors
fortified by some posterie and twenty quadrangular towers.
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San Vito Lo Capo:
in the province of Trapani, it extends at the East part of the
splendid reserve of the Gypsy (Zingaro). The beauties that make
the place peculiar are: the wonderful white beach about one
kilometre long, and a cristalline sea where you can discern the
splendid sounding-depth. Going forward though the town we can
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Riserva naturale dello Zingaro:
it extends between Scopello and S. Vito lo Capo. Its 1600
hectares of incontaminate nature of the preserve are made up
with imposing mountains, deep recesses and wvalleys on the sea.
The preserve, estabilished in 1981 with a regional law has been
the first natural protected of the island, one of the few oases
stile untouched and protected against the building speculation. |
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Selinunte:
it is the most important archaeological ancient times for the
magnificence of remains. Its name derives from the world plant
of parsley, known in greek "Selinon" which is often reproduced
even in the old coins of the town. As almostall the ancient
towns it has an Acropolis with its maxima buildings and presents
a street texture with two main thorough-fares orthogonal to one
another and o the same width (9m) on which small houses are
projected again the building speculation. |
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Segesta:
it raises on the hinterland of the Trapanese
countries, included in a system of waning hills. The temple can
be dated in the last thirty years of the V century B.C. between
430 and 420. on the overhanging elevation, the temple set on the
eastern part of the acropolis, raises the theatre, consisting of
a cavea at semicircle partially sunken in the rock, where, in
summertime, magically are perfomed to a new life the great
tragedies that used to charm the ancients |
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Monreale, Il Duomo:
the Cathedral: consacreted to saint Mary th New and built sine
1174 on the will of the Norman King William II, is the symbol of
a refined mixture of architectonic styles such as the Islamic,
the Bizantine and the romanesques. In the intermediate apse
there is the majestic image of the Blessing Christ with the
Greek writing underneath “Pantocrator” (Almighty), which is also
the emblem of the magnificence of the holy Building. |
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Marsala: Museo Archeologico
the archaeologic museum, is sheltered in the premises of an
ancient wine firm, the Baglio Anselmi. The most important piece
of the museum is represented by the magnificient wreckage of an
ancient punic ship, nimble and speedy Carthaginian warship,
about 35 m long and provided wit 34 cars, of III c. B.C.,
salvaged near the cape of St. Teodoro, in 1979
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