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Santa Ninfa - Old Town
Country village of Valley of Belice built on three hills, was founded around the seventeenth century on a feud sold by Baron Graffeo, to Partanna because he had to solve economic problems. Following the immigration of people from Palermo, Noto and...
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Gibellino - Old Town
City destroyed by the earthquake of 1968 was entirely rebuilt shortly distant from the place where it stood. New Gibellina while maintaining tradition, was built with the help of artists at the international level that allowed to draw a cultural journey into the future, projecting men and ...
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Salaparuta - Old Town
City of Belice's Valley also concerned the earthquake of 1968, is one of the first Arab settlements in the area. Built around 1100 AD, at the beginning was just a house and just around the sixteenth century it saw a population increase. Charac...
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Poggioreale - Old Town
The old city, founded by Morso Naselli in 1642, no longer exists, swept away by the earthquake of 1968. It was an urban checkerboard regular, which is still legible in the road layout and buildings that remained standing. Inhabited since ancient times (on nearby...
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Pantelleria
Pantelleria the black pearl of the Mediterranean. It was the Phoenicians, Carthaginians and then, to understand the strategic importance of the island, followed by Arabs, Vandals, Byzantines, Normans, Angevins, Aragonese, Spanish,Bourbons and Genovesi. Single witness of the ancient Mediterr...
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Marsala - Old Town
Marsala, a city full of Punic, Roman, Norman, Arabic and Spanish testimonial, among which are of particular interest the necropolis of Punic age, the Villa Romana with its wonderful mosaics , the Baptistery Christian V sec. and the remai...
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Partanna - Old Town
Partanna, located between the Valley of Modione and Belice's Valley,was a Sicilian settlement.The first core of late medieval old town, surrounded by walls, was built in the XIV century. around the castle and the Matrix. The name "Partanna" seems to have Arab origin for the presence the...
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Segesta
On Mount Barbaro there is Segesta
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Forest Angimbč
The Forest of Angimbč is characterized by a cork native
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Natural Reserve of the Caves of Santa Ninfa
Established in 1996 and managed by Legambiente, the reserve is a system of natural and karst cave which is located between the towns of Santa Ninfa and Gibellina and insists Finestrelle Mount, an area of archaeological interest, so called from the graves all side by side on a rock side of the mou...
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Erice - Old Town
Is one of the most visited and scenic medieval towns of Sicily. There prevails a uniform gray-white stone walls and paved roads-some so narrow as to allow the passage of only one person at a time-and still preserves courtyards full of green plants and flowers from the many shades of color , which...
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Egadi Islands - Favignana/Levanzo/Marettimo
Favignana: And 'the largest of the Egadi Islands with Mount St. Catherine, and above that of the same name which stands the ancient fort. Arriving on the pier you can see a small building at the end of 800 surrounded by a garden, designed by the architect. Palermo Damiani Almeyda, wanted by the t...
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Mozia
Identified in the early 900 with the island of St. Pantaleo, Mozia, important Phoenician city, you can know with a nice walk between the rows of vineyards and the coast, to discover the island's most important archaeological zones: the home of the mosaics, Roman building, with mosaic floors with ...
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